utilities

Sep
16

Itron, Tantalus team up to expand smart-grid offerings for utilities

Metering firm Itron and smart-grid networking provider Tantalus are partnering to expand the range of smart-grid technologies and services they
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Sep
14

Illinois governor vetoes utility-backed grid legislation

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn this week vetoed a measure that would have raised billions for utility companies seeking to update
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Aug
11

Partnership eyes smart-grid advances for China and beyond

Alcatel-Lucent and China’s State Grid Information & Telecommunication Company (SGIT) are teaming up to develop smart-grid technologies for utilities.
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Aug
10

Design software targets utilities facing 'unprecedented challenges'

Autodesk has released two new additions to its portfolio of software for building information modeling (BIM) for sustainable infrastructure: Autodesk
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Jul
04

Constellation Energy doubles its customer base

Constellation Energy has doubled the size of its residential customer base with the acquisition of MXenergy, a Connecticut-based supplier of
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Jun
16

Grid upgrade is 'world's largest industrial automation project'

The growing share of renewable-energy sources and advances in power grid technologies are driving an era of “unprecedented” change to
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Jun
16

Challenge names top 3 innovations for utilities

A “hands-off” heating and cooling strategy, an improved method for electronic power conversion and a system that “fingerprints” energy on
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Jun
15

Singapore utility turns to next-gen outage management

Singapore PowerGrid (SPGG) aims to reduce service disruptions and the costs associated with power outages by implementing the next generation
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Jun
14

Utilities increasingly worried about water

Clean-energy advocates will find some bright spots in the latest survey of electric utilities, but they’ll find plenty of
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Apr
26

Around the world, grid makeover picks up speed

Viewed from the perspective of just one year ago, it’s amazing how quickly developments in the smart-grid industry have
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