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ELEXON, which provides balancing and settlement services to the UK electricity industry, plans to investigate the potential benefits that could come from using more accurate, up-to-date data from smart meters in homes and small businesses. In a just-launched consultation, ELEXON is seeking public input into how smart meters could help
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A Nordic energy company plans to deploy smart electricity meters to 100,000 customers in Norway. Fortum Norway will roll out a smart metering system from Echelon with the help of Telvent, a smart-grid partner of Echelon. The project is part of Norway’s new push to install smart meters
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PECO, a Pennsylvania-based electric and gas distribution company that provides energy to the greater Philadelphia area, has selected Telvent’s smart-grid solutions to upgrade its electrical network, reduce power losses and operational costs, and improve power quality and reliability. PECO plans to implement Telvent’s advanced distribution management system (ADMS)
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Canada’s BC Hydro is enlisting the help of two British Columbia-based firms as it prepares to begin rolling out smart meters to 1.8 million customers starting this month. The utility will launch the deployment with the help of software and communications infrastructure from Vancouver-based Bit Stew Systems and
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As smart energy meters are rolled out to every household in Britain, consumers should be ensured that they’re still able to easily switch utilities and have their rights protected, says energy regulator Ofgem. The agency says it is updating its existing rules to increase consumer protection, especially for the
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company says its newly released smart-grid deployment plan isn’t just a roadmap for modernizing the energy grid but represents “a fundamental change to the way PG&E uses technology to serve its customers and operate its business.” The 290-page document sets out plans to
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Will British consumers set to receive smart gas or electricity meters cut their energy use as much as officials expect? That’s one of the questions that needs better answers before the government actually goes ahead with its planned nationwide smart meter deployment, according to a new report from the
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IBM has become the latest member of a new cross-industry group set up to promote a smarter energy grid in the UK. Launched earlier this month, SmartGrid GB includes companies in the energy and information/communication technologies sectors, as well as consumer advocacy groups and government. agencies. The organization’s
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Brazil’s largest privately owned energy company plans to roll out 25,000 smart electricity meters by the end of 2012. The deployment is part of a broader smart-grid effort that will eventually reach millions of the utility’s customers. CPFL Energia Holdings is working with IBM to develop a
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The communities of Pullman and Albion in Washington state are embarking upon a $38 million project to test and demonstrate the benefits of a smarter, more automated energy grid. Being led by the energy company Avista Corporation, the project will feature technology from Tropos Networks and Itron. By automating part
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Just a little over two years old, Google’s PowerMeter is heading for the search giant’s dustbin of history. Bill Weihl, Google’s Green Energy Czar, broke the news in a Google blog post, explaining that “our efforts have not scaled as quickly as we would like, so we
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A major energy-use research project just published in the UK finds that, while individual households equipped with smart meters might not always cut their electricity consumption by much, the savings generated nationwide would be substantial. British energy regulator Ofgem launched the Energy Demand Research Project (EDRP) before officials unveiled plans
