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Metering firm Itron and smart-grid networking provider Tantalus are partnering to expand the range of smart-grid technologies and services they can offer to electric companies and multi-service public utilities. Together, the two companies aim to target public utilities across North and Central America looking to provide smart metering, energy management
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn this week vetoed a measure that would have raised billions for utility companies seeking to update the state’s electricity grid. Senate Bill 1652 would have allowed Illinois utility companies to impose annual, automatic rate hikes for the next decade to pay for grid improvements. Quinn
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Alcatel-Lucent and China’s State Grid Information & Telecommunication Company (SGIT) are teaming up to develop smart-grid technologies for utilities. The collaboration aims to help utilities better manage peak electricity demand, identify opportunities for power savings and cut down on energy use. The focus will be on increasing the intelligence
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Autodesk has released two new additions to its portfolio of software for building information modeling (BIM) for sustainable infrastructure: Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 and AutoCAD Utility Design 2012. Both releases are designed to complement the Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite 2012 aimed at helping industry professionals increase efficiency and remove waste
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Constellation Energy has doubled the size of its residential customer base with the acquisition of MXenergy, a Connecticut-based supplier of natural gas and electricity with about 540,000 customers in North America. The $175 million transaction brings Constellation’s residential customer base up to around 900,000 and broadens the
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The growing share of renewable-energy sources and advances in power grid technologies are driving an era of “unprecedented” change to our energy infrastructure. The was the prevailing opinion of attendees at the Fourth Annual Utility of the Future Leadership Forum, held in Denver last week by energy and utilities consulting
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A “hands-off” heating and cooling strategy, an improved method for electronic power conversion and a system that “fingerprints” energy on the power grid have all been named the most promising clean-technology solutions focused on utilities. EcoFactor, Ideal Power Converters and Power Tagging were chosen as the top three technologies from
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Singapore PowerGrid (SPGG) aims to reduce service disruptions and the costs associated with power outages by implementing the next generation of geographic information system (GIS) and outage management technology. Working with Esri South Asia and Microsoft platforms, IT solutions provider Telvent will provide SPPG with its Responder Outage Management System.
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Clean-energy advocates will find some bright spots in the latest survey of electric utilities, but they’ll find plenty of causes for concern as well. The more than 700 US utility leaders who took part in Black & Veatch’s fifth annual Strategic Directions in the Electric Utility Industry survey
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Viewed from the perspective of just one year ago, it’s amazing how quickly developments in the smart-grid industry have accelerated. That term alone, though — “smart-grid industry” — is somewhat deceptive. Things might be moving fast, but it’s still early in the game, and the smart-grid world remains anything but
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We recently extolled the virtues of Oracle’s awesome online centre for utilities … not only for its appealing, next-gen design but its top-to-bottom usefulness for potential utility customers. Oracle’s site sets the bar high, and meets expectations. Not all smart technology firms, do, though. Like Oracle, HP attempts to
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Acceller has introduced a new digital shopping platform that can let utilities take a share in the revenue of moving-related services such as account changes for cable television, high-speed internet and home phone service. The Miami-based firm unveiled the platform at the 2011 AGA/EEI Customer Service Conference & Exposition
