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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that implementing a fully functional smart grid across the US could cost between $338 billion and $476 billion. However, the resulting benefits — in the neighbourhood of $1.3 trillion to $2 trillion — would far outweigh the expense. The estimate reflects new technologies related
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The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in collaboration with KEMA, plan to start new research on our future energy network. The research effort will focus on automatic optimisation of the capacity planning of the electricity network. Results are relevant to policy
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Ten rural electric cooperatives and utilities in the US have been awarded funding to build or expand transmission and distribution lines and provide smart-grid technology to benefit nearly 20,000 rural consumers. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced loans totaling $376 million, including nearly $14 million in smart-grid technology. The funds
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Siemens is exhibiting at the Hannover Messe this week to demonstrate, among other things, how smart grids can interact with intelligent building systems and how urban traffic flows can be optimised. Siemens’ activities in the areas of smart grids, power distribution and mobility solutions are all part of its newly
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It’s critical that the private sector and global governments expand collaboration to speed up deployment of smart grids around the world, according to the Global Smart Grid Federation (GSGF). The organisation made its statement during the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi. “Although the smart grid has a
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Texas Electric Cooperatives (TEC) plans to offer Tantalus’ TUNet smart-grid communications technology to electric cooperatives and municipal utilities throughout Texas. TEC is the statewide association representing the interests of 65 electric distribution cooperatives and nine generation and transmission cooperatives across Texas. The alliance with Tantalus enables TEC to offer its
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A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) says the widespread deployment of smart grids is crucial to achieving a more secure and sustainable energy future. With current trends in the supply and use of energy becoming increasingly untenable — economically, environmentally and socially — the IEA asserts that smart grids
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Australian Energy Market Operator Ltd. (AEMO) will implement a solution from Itron to automate short-term load forecasting for the National Electricity Market (NEM) in Australia — a market that includes New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. Through this partnership, Itron will implement an end-to-end solution to streamline AEMO’
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In deregulated energy markets, customers and their main contact point — energy retailers — have a unique opportunity, technologically as well as economically, to advance the efficient development of the smart grid throughout Europe’s competitive energy markets. A new whitepaper from the European Technology Platform for the Electricity Networks of the
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The Smart Energy Demand Coalition (SEDC) is a newly formed industry group, representing the entire energy value chain and cutting across all segments of the electricity industry. The SEDC is dedicated to promoting the requirements of demand-side programs to further the development of the smart grid and ensure improved end-consumer
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The Florida-based community-owned utility JEA will begin deploying Landis+Gyr’s Gridstream RF Network in April as part of a smart-grid project aimed at enhancing customer service and helping consumers manage energy consumption. Under the agreement with JEA, Landis+Gyr will install Gridstream technology to enable two-way communication with advanced
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The smart-grid-focused S&C Electric Company has announced that its IntelliRupter PulseCloser now offers high-accuracy voltage and current sensors as a standard feature. The now-standard sensors enable the IntelliRupter to respond to self-healing and protection applications with greater accuracy than any device currently on the market, according to S&