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Metering company Elster and energy management information systems specialist ENER21 plan to combine their offerings to deliver real-time energy monitoring. The companies aim to enable monitoring and verification of consumption data for large-scale energy projects by combining Elster’s EnergyICT EIServer Project Tracking system and ENER21’s Energy Management Information
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Oracle Utilities will be helping Georgia’s Cobb Electric Membership Corporation manage the vast amount of data the utility will be gathering from its deployment of 196,000 smart electricity meters. A not-for-profit electric membership cooperative that serves parts of the metropolitan Atlanta area, Cobb EMC will work with Oracle
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Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI), which provides predictive diagnostics and analytics for energy efficiency, plans to acquire the energy management and demand response firm Servidyne in an all-cash transaction. The $3.50-per-share acquisition is expected to close during or before the fourth quarter of this year. Once the transaction is completed,
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Don’t knock energy efficiency: done right, it could cut our power demands as much as taking 100,000 homes off the grid every year. That’s what San Francisco-based energy management software firm Opower has set out to do. It says it aims to reduce overall energy consumption in
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The “internet of things,” as the smart grid is often called, shares a lot of characteristics with an unlikely person: “celebutante” Paris Hilton: 1. They’ve both partied in Amsterdam 2. Impossible to go a week without hearing about either of them 3. Money … big money 4. Pro on energy
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Continuing on its quest to grab a share of the future “smart energy” market, GE has decided to buy one of the technology companies it singled out last year as an ecomagination Challenge winner. The $200 million challenge was aimed at identifying and funding innovative firms with “the best ideas
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Building owners and residents in Finland will soon be able to try out an energy efficiency technology that could outsmart — in terms of potential energy savings — their already-smart electricity meters. The utility company Fortum has begun one pilot program using new smart-meter communications modules from Echelon, and plans to launch
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Recent developments in building a cleaner, smarter energy future haven’t been just good … they’ve been Google good. The search engine giant has been busy in recent weeks, going big on sustainability with investments in the world’s largest wind farm, an ultra-high-speed fiber project and a joint effort
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The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) plans to work with Duke Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to identify opportunities for testing and deploying ARPA-E-funded projects that will bolster the electric grid. Duke Energy is one of the largest electric power companies in
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The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (KCBPU) has selected Elster for the utility’s smart-grid deployment. KCBPU, a publicly owned provider of electricity and water services to residences and businesses across the Kansas City, Kansas, area, will implement Elster’s EnergyAxis Smart Grid solution to streamline business and operational
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Not all the news developments out of the smart-grid world can be characterised as “exciting.” You’ve got the standard “Company X rolls out another million smart meters” stories, for example, and the “Company Y hires so-and-so for MDMS (meter demand management system) deployment”-type announcements. Nice, in terms of
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Chris King, Chief Regulatory Officer for eMeter, is among those scheduled today to brief members of the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Energy, and the National Science and Technology Council on the policy opportunities to provide advanced energy services. Other leading technology companies and non-profits interested in