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The US is awarding nearly $100 million to 54 smart grid workforce training programmes aimed at building a next-generation workforce in the utility and electrical manufacturing industries. The stimulus fund-backed initiative is expected to provide work training to some 30,000 people. A new and adequately trained workforce is needed
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All the bells, whistles and smart-energy technologies won’t be able to deliver on the promise of a cleaner, more efficient and smart-grid world without buy-in from one key player: energy consumers. That’s the logic behind a new organisation created by an alliance of consumer electronics and technology companies,
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Look at brochures of electricity companies today and you’ll see green pictures full of wind farms and sunshine. These are the images that now surround electricity generation. But, the reality is that at the moment at least 60 per cent of the UK’s electricity still comes from fossil
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Is the “smart grid” really as smart as the hype makes it out to be? Can it really deliver on its promise to reduce energy consumption with a minumum of bother? Those are among the questions some of the UK’s top leaders in the “smart” sector aim to tackle
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Editor’s note: The following is a guest commentary by Hermione Crease, marketing and communication manager for Sentec, which provides products and consulting services for smart metering and energy management. Can you remember a time before the internet? Those long-gone days when information gathering meant a day in a library
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Is the smart grid nearly as smart as the hype around it says? It depends on whether you expect the technology to ax energy consumption and carbon emissions … or whether you think it’ll act more like a scalpel. The scalpel expectation appears to be more realistic, according to a
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Following is a guest commentary penned by Jonas N. Olsen, vice president of marketing and sales for On-Ramp Wireless Inc., which provides the first purpose-built wireless system for efficiently connecting billions of hard-to-reach devices in metro scale and other challenging environments. A variety of wireless systems and topologies are being
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Are you or your company developing an innovative way to decarbonise the power grid, transmit both data and energy via the grid or boost energy efficiency and conservation? If so, you could win a foot into the door of the smart grid industry, courtesy of the GreenBeat 2009 Innovation Competition.
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VentureBeat introduces another opportunity for you to plug in with the innovators at its seminal conference on the smart grid, GreenBeat 2009, being held 18 – 19 November in San Francisco. Online registration is available now, and Greenbang readers can save 20% off regular price tickets with the discount code GREENBANG09
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Utility networks in the UK — including those for electricity and water — remain far too vulnerable to disruption and failure, according to a new inquiry released by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The inquiry, “The State of the Nation: Defending Critical Infrastructure,” is based upon oral and written evidence from
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While most US residents say they’re concerned about their home energy costs, only a small number are willing to pay upfront to gain access to real-time and detailed information about their energy consumption, according to a new survey released today by Oracle. Oracle’s research report, “Turning Information into
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New Jersey-based NRG Energy has announced a deal in which it will purchase Reliant Energy’s Texas-based retail business for $287.5 million (US). The acquisition brings into NRG’s fold the second-largest mass-market electricity provider in Texas. Reliant currently serves about 1.8 million customers in the state. “Matching