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Despite continued opposition by some in the public (and in government as well), cities across the US continue to roll out smart meters and other improvements aimed at reducing energy consumption, cutting carbon emissions and smoothing out grid-stressing peaks and troughs in electricity demand. The latest to come on board
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For most other businesses, a defect rate of 0.08 per cent is pretty darned good … practically something to brag about. For Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), though, that level of malfunctioning is enough to generate news stories like this one. Sitting as it does at the
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How do you grab a chunk of the smart-grid action if you don’t want to spend time building your market from the ground up? You buy a company that’s already done so, of course. That, according to a Reuters news report, is what GE appears to be considering.
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Brazilian utility Light S.A. (Light) will deploy Elster’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solution to help increase energy efficiency, conserve resources, give customers more control over services and enhance distribution to residents who currently don’t have electric service. Light, which serves the state of Rio de Janeiro, plans
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Utility management technology provider Sensus has released a new transceiver designed to enable more flexible two-way communications for natural gas meters. The Sensus SmartPoint GM transceivers can be easily installed on existing residential, commercial or industrial meters, according to the company. The technology enables system-wide data collection and monitoring for
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Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has selected Elster’s EnergyAxis smart-grid solution to power the utility’s first advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project in Mexico City, Mexico’s capital city with a population of more than 20 million. The Mexican Secretaria de Energia (SENER) and CFE will use the EnergyAxis
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In an age where we take it for granted that we can call people on the go, browse the web from anywhere and order anything from a pizza to a stock trade from the palm of our hands, who would object to having access to real-time details on how much
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Brazil’s ELO Sistemas Eletrônicos (ELO) will use eMeter Corporation’s EnergyIP platform to address the data management and integration requirements for its end-to-end smart meter solution for utilities. ELO is developing a large-scale smart metering solution in response to Brazil’s push to replace up to 63 million electric
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BC Hydro plans to buy about two million new electricity meters from Itron over the next two years as part of its Smart Metering Program. According to the utility, the program will keep electricity rates lower than they would have otherwise been in British Columbia. It is expected to generate
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Echelon Corporation’s NES Energy Control System has been selected as one of five solutions in a 50,000-home smart-metering pilot project by PermEnergo, part of the MRSK group, one of Russia’s largest utilities. Echelon value-added reseller Engineering Center ENERGOAUDITKONTROL was awarded a contract for networking 10,000 homes
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The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has entered into a value-added reseller agreement with smart-grid firm Sensus. Through this partnership NRTC will offer its members Sensus smart-grid technologies, including the FlexNet advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system, smart meters, distribution automation and demand response solutions. In response to requests from co-op
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Tantalus has been chosen to provide an advanced metering system for Norwich Public Utilities (NPU), a municipal utility in southeast Connecticut. NPU, which provides electricity to 22,000 customers and water, sewer and natural gas service to 20,000 properties, aims to use the metering system to introduce a range
