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NRGi, one of the largest consumer-owned energy companies in Denmark, has enlisted the help of eMeter and Eltel to improve its approach toward energy management. The company plans to use eMeter’s Energy IP meter data management platform to improve and scale its smart-grid deployment to more than 210,000
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Smart-grid communications firm Tantalus is targeting utilities with a new meter module designed to help commercial and industrial customers get greater insights into their energy usage and costs. The enhanced functionality module for GE’s Kv2c and Kv2c(+) polyphase meters for commercial and industrial users will provide: * More extensive reporting
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Denmark now has its first cloud-based smart metering solution, targeted at small utilities and communities that previously found such technologies out of their financial reach. Smart-grid firm Echelon announced this week that Eltel Networks, one of its value-added resellers, has teamed up with Danish utility co-op EnergiMidt to offer the
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Starting next month, British Gas will begin rolling out “stylish” touch-screen displays designed to help its customers see how much energy they’re using and better identify ways to control their power bills. According to British Gas, the displays are “the first of a new generation” of small, fully portable
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Metering firms Elster and Landis+Gyr plan to work together to jointly develop integrated advanced metering hardware for smart-grid applications. Under a new agreement between the companies, each firm will work to integrate communication functions into advanced meters with the goal of providing utility customers with a choice of meter
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Smart-grid firm Sensus is partnering with Ecologic Analytics, a meter data management system (MDMS) provider, to provide a communications solution for electricity customers using Sensus’ FlexNet smart-meter system. The solution provides a way for meter reading and control data to be exchanged between Sensus’ radio network interface (RNI) head end
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Texas-based transmission and distribution system operator Oncor has reached the tw0-million mark for installed smart meters across the state. Launched in 2008, Oncor’s smart-meter deployment program is now about two-thirds of the way toward the finish line. “This is a significant milestone in our efforts to install more than
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Mission Power will use SmartGridCIS’ Express software to support its advanced metering system (AMS) prepay business in Texas. Atlanta-based SmartGridCIS provides AMS prepay and time-of-use billing software and customer information system for utilities and retail energy companies. It was the first AMS prepay solution to launch in Texas. Mission Power
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Elster will be helping a regional distribution grid company in Kazakhstan deploy advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for high- and medium-voltage substations. The company will be working with Karagandy Zharyk, which supplies electricity to more than 1.5 million customers in central Kazakhstan. Elster Metronica, an Elster Group company, completed an
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An analysis conducted for the Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) has found that smart electricity meters could save customers $2.8 billion over 20 years … and that’s a savings over and above the amount they could save by using smart meters to manage their own energy use. The study
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Energy control networking firm Echelon will work with Holley Metering Limited to develop advanced smart metering products for the massive China market. Holley Metering expects to ship 10 million meters into China and international markets this year. Under its agreement with Echelon, the two companies will collaborate to develop products
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Rolling out smart energy meters makes financial sense for utilities and customers even in regions where electricity costs are low, fossil fuel generation is high and the public is skeptical about climate change, according to a new report. The paper from the Institute for Electric Efficiency (IEE) shows that, for
