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Danish smart-grid firm Amplex plans to host a March 17 seminar for small- and mid-sized utilities interested in getting started with smart-grid technology. The seminar will focus on how to get started with smart grid at the low-voltage level. During the program, Amplex intends to launch its StartGrid Initiate solution,
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Comverge, which specialises in intelligent energy management solutions for residential, commercial and industrial customers, has established a new international subsidiary to capitalise on the growing global demand for its software, hardware and services. Michael D. Picchi, Comverge’s CFO, will lead the new subsidiary as president of Comverge International. A
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IBM has announced that two new utilities have joined its Global IUN Coalition, a group of utility companies designed to further the adoption of smarter energy grids around the world: TEPCO from Japan, and KEPCO from Korea. The coalition now collectively serves approximately 150 million energy customers worldwide. TEPCO, the
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Progress Energy has chosen IBM as the lead systems integrator for the utility’s smart-grid program. Together the companies will transform Progress Energy’s networks by improving power efficiency, increasing power quality and reliability, and enhancing capabilities for renewable energy, energy storage systems and plug-in electric vehicles. Progress Energy is
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Digi International andQualityLogic Inc. have announced that the Digi ERT/Ethernet Gateway has successfully completed the testing under the Itron ChoiceConnect ERT Receiver Logo Program and is the first product to receive logo certification. Under the program, QualityLogic tests the compatibility between Itron’s ChoiceConnect meter messages and devices from
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GE and the government of Ontario have announced a new $40 million Grid IQ Innovation Centre, the first center of its kind for GE in Canada, to be located in Markham, Ontario. Grid IQ is GE’s companywide commitment to solving customers’ challenges with more efficient, reliable and sustainable energy
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SECO Energy, one of the largest electric cooperatives in the US, has selected Sensus as its smart-grid technology provider. Sensus will provide the Florida cooperative its FlexNet™ Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) communications network and more than 172,000 electric meters equipped with remote connect and disconnect capabilities. SECO selected Sensus
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Grid2Home, developer of Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP-2) communication technologies, has completed a second round of funding, led by Granite Ventures. The funding will enable the company to take its SEP-2 standards-compliant G2H-SE2 software solution into production and scale to meet the demands of a growing customer base. In
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LiveData’s SmartGrid Manager has received a 2010 Smart Grid Excellence Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Intelligent Communications Partners (ICP). LiveData SmartGrid Manager is a data integration and visualisation system that verifies the health of systems that run the electric power grid. The company’s products continuously monitor,
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Analog and mixed-signal semiconductor supplier Semtech Corp. and Virtual Extension, a mesh wireless networks provider, have expanded their wireless mesh network platform to include a new, ultra-high transmission range power chipset to improve performance in a wide variety of smart environment applications. The chipset pairs Semtech’s SX1231 ISM-band transceiver
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Developing the UK’s smart-grid infrastructure will require communications and data technologies that can manage far more information than utilities must handle today. That’s the focus of a strategy report from Greenbang Research: “Enabling the UK’s smart-grid future: The wireless spectrum debate.” The report answers such questions as:
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NRGi, Denmark’s fourth largest utility, has selected Echelon Corporation’s Networked Energy Services (NES) smart-grid control system to implement throughout its services territory. The system includes Echelon software for sensing, monitoring and control applications for the low-voltage grid and smart meters for nearly 150,000 homes and businesses. With