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Landis+Gyr will help the US-based Northwest Lineman College develop a smart-grid training centre at the school’s campus in Oroville, California. The college is building a virtual city in a laboratory environment to provide training for smart meter certification, advanced metering infrastructure and home area networking. The centre will
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A panel considering interoperability issues for the smart grid has come out in favour of a new standard to two-way data communications between utilities and their customers. The governing board of the public-private Smart Grid Interoperability Panel gave its nod to a new “energy usage data model” standard that will
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Power and automation technology group ABB has won a $180 million order to help support the interconnection of the Norwegian and Danish power grids. The underwater link will boost transmission capacity between the mainly hydroelectric-based Norwegian system operated by Statnett and the wind and thermal power-based system operated by Energinet.
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North Carolina-based PowerSecure International has received $10 million in new business for its Interactive Distributed Generation (IDG) smart-grid power systems and LED lighting products. The $7 million in IDG system orders include installations for a broad base of customers, including hospitals, municipal water systems, educational facilities, and retailers. The new
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South Korea’s state-run power company plans to spend $7.2 billion in smart-grid developments between now and 2030. Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) expects to invest around $360 million a year over the next five years to improve facilities for electric supply and distribution. The company plans to develop
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“The Human Element,” as Dow Chemical rightly notes in its global ad campaign, is the one element that’s critical to innovation. But it’s also one that can’t be neglected as we work to upgrade and smarten our electricity grid and resource management strategies. Without taking into account
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If you go by the old saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, you have to conclude that the same is true of our power grids. How reliable our electricity supplies are depends, ultimately, on where the greatest weaknesses in the system lie. One weakness
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Building a fully smart energy grid — an “internet of things,” as it’s often called — means linking many millions of devices across our entire electricity infrastructure: meters, transformers, wind turbines, rooftop solar panels, power plants and more. Getting all these devices to “talk” with one another for optimum efficiency, which
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Our information and communications might be increasingly virtual, wireless and in the cloud, but there’s one limitation all the technology in the world can’t erase: IT’s dependence on energy. That fact explains why companies like GE are looking to broaden their presence in energy-related sectors and buy
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Representatives from more than 20 countries are meeting in Washington, DC, today for the US government’s first-ever Clean Energy Ministerial. As the event kicked off this morning, three new international energy-saving and efficiency initiatives were announced: the Super-Efficient Appliance Development initiative, the Global Superior Energy Performance Partnership and the
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GE is offering a $200 million dare to startup entrepreneurs, technology pros and other innovative thinkers: Find a way to “reinvent how energy is produced, distributed and consumed.” That’s how Paul Koontz, a general partner with Foundation Capital, describes GE ecomagination’s new $200 million “Powering the Grid” challenge.
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The Smart Grid Energy Training Coalition has been awarded a grant of $2.5 million from the Department of Energy for the purpose of developing a smart grid workforce training program. The coalition, led by the University of Houston includes CenterPoint Energy, San Jacinto College, the Power Technology Institute, SkillsNET