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Current News
Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority Selects Itron and Tantalus for Advanced Metering Infrastructure
March 6, 2014
The utility will initially utilize high-return applications such as real-time meter reading, billing reconciliation, and tamper/theft detection. Integrations with systems such as GIS, OMS, and MDM will support the implementation of future applications such as in-home consumer energy management tools and demand management.
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Chattanooga's EPB Issues Final Call for Applicants to Smart Grid Business Accelerator
March 6, 2014
GIGTANK 2014 will offer participants in the smart energy space opportunities to build and test their applications using millions of data points from one of the nation's most automated smart distribution grid, operated by Chattanooga's municipal utility, EPB.
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Accenture to Work with Thames Water on Smart Monitoring Capabilities
March 6, 2014
Accenture will conduct an 18 month pilot from September 2013 to March 2015 at various Thames Water sites, to test, monitor and assess the benefits of the technology integration.
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Report Examines Future of High-Voltage DC Transmission Systems
March 5, 2014
"Growth in electricity demand, transmission system congestion, and grid instability are all helping drive new demand for HVDC transmission systems," says Kristoffer Torvik, senior research analyst with Navigant Research. "Approximately 333 gigawatts (GW) of new HVDC transmission capacity will be added between 2013 and 2020, including nearly 200 GW in China alone."
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Smart City Market Projected to Reach $1.5 Trillion by 2020
March 4, 2014
According to a new report by Frost & Sullivan, more than 26 cities globally will be smart cities in 2025 with more than 50 percent being in Europe and North America.
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NRTC Extends Partnership with Sensus to Support Rural Electric Co-ops
March 4, 2014
Since 2011, NRTC members have installed nearly 600,000 Sensus meters at 40 different rural electric cooperatives. With the renewed agreement, NRTC plans to install more than 1 million Sensus meters at an additional 100 cooperatives nationwide.
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ComEd Seeks Faster Schedule to Deliver Smart Meters
February 28, 2014
The utility intends to file a request with the Illinois Commerce Commission, which directed ComEd to pursue a path to acceleration, to complete the installation of more than four million smart meters by 2018, ahead of the currently scheduled 2021.
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Ontario Premier Announces New Advanced Energy Centre To Be Based At MaRS
February 28, 2014
Founding industry partners Capgemini and Siemens, as well as utility and government representatives, will work collaboratively in the the Centre to consolidate and extend what is seen as Canada's early lead in next-generation energy technologies - such as those in the energy data and energy storage space.
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IEC Approves OpenADR Specification
February 27, 2014
The OpenADR Alliance recently announced that the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has approved the OpenADR 2.0b Profile Specification as a Publicly Available Specification (PAS), as a basis for a new commission standard to be developed.
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Landis+Gyr Announces Contracts With 13 Utilities in 2014
February 27, 2014
The new contracts bring the total number of utilities deploying PLX technology to 24 since the system was released at the end of 2012. These contracts represent a long-term potential upgrade of 450,000 metering endpoints.
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Report: Widespread Customer Defection from the Electric Grid Possible by 2025
February 26, 2014
In the first installment of two reports, RMI, HOMER and CRTE outline the possible scenarios in five different U.S. regions -- Hawaii, California, Kentucky, Texas and New York -- and identify when solar PV and storage combinations could disrupt existing utility business models.
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GE Launches New Distributed Power Business
February 25, 2014
In a new white paper, “The Rise of Distributed Power,” GE highlights that distributed power has become increasingly popular in countries that are seeking more reliable, efficient energy options near the point of use -- on or off the grid. According to the report, distributed power will grow 40 percent faster than global electricity demand between now and 2020.
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Itron Simplifies Smart Grid and AMI Deployments with Managed Services Solution
February 25, 2014
With the bundled managed services offering, the utility owns the hardware and Itron manages all network communications, system operations, data delivery, data collection and reporting, basic meter data management and network management. Utilities can add additional functionality such as analytics, field installation and maintenance options, distribution automation, consumer engagement and other advanced AMI functionality.
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40% of Consumers Are Willing to Allow Their Utility to Remotely Control Home Energy Devices
February 24, 2014
ON World’s survey found that 29% of the willing demand response respondents with household incomes over $50,000 would accept a real-time energy pricing plan in exchange for allowing their utility to remotely control in-home devices.
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American Vanadium Announces First CellCube Vanadium Flow Battery Installation in U.S.
February 24, 2014
After the demonstration of the energy storage system at NREL’s facility in Golden, Colorado, the CellCube is designated for sale to a US utility, according to the company.
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Con Edison to Take New Measures to Protect Against the Effects of Climate Change
February 21, 2014
The New York State Public Service Commission recently approved unanimously an Order requiring Con Edison to implement measures to plan for and protect its electric, gas, and steam systems from the effects of climate change. The decision, which was issued in the context of Con Edison's petition for changes to its rates, also orders the continuation of the Storm Hardening and Resiliency Collaborative.
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Survey: Prepay Energy at an Inflection Point for Rapid Adoption
February 20, 2014
According to the DEFG survey, the percentage of Americans interested in a voluntary prepaid energy option increased by 3%
from 2012 to 2013. Since 2010, those who are "extremely interested" or "very interested" has
increased 7 points, from 17% in 2010 to 22% in 2012 to 24% in 2013.
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S&C Energy Storage System Minimizes Power Outages at BC Hydro
February 20, 2014
The system, owned by BC Hydro, integrates a 1-MW sodium-sulfur battery bank to the power grid so that it can provide up to seven hours of clean back-up power should the power grid experience a disruption. The system also provides peak shaving on a daily basis.
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STMicroelectronics Reveals Advanced Security Module for Smart Grid
February 20, 2014
The solution is an advanced security module that is designed to prevent malicious attacks on smart-grid gateways, concentrators, and smart meters.
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IEEE Launches Standards-Development Projects for Smart Grid Fault Management
February 18, 2014
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) has approved two new projects to develop future standardization of phasor data concentrators. Both development projects are intended to produce standards that improve fault management and other smart grid functionality.
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ABB Wins $60 Million Order in Canada to Strengthen Grid
February 18, 2014
As part of the order from Hydro-Québec, ABB will upgrade two Static Var Compensators (SVC) located at the Albanel substation, about 500 kilometers north of Montreal, that provide fast-acting reactive power compensation for the 735 kilovolt electricity network. The upgrades are scheduled to be completed by 2016.
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World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Project Achieves Commercial Operation
February 13, 2014
At full capacity, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System's trio of 450-foot high towers is designed to produce a gross total of 392 megawatts of solar power, enough electricity to provide 140,000 California homes.
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Lockheed Martin and Victorian Wave Partners to Develop World’s Largest Wave Energy Project
February 13, 2014
The 62.5-megawatt peak power wave energy generation project will be built off the coast of Victoria, Australia, using the PowerBuoy wave energy converter technology of Ocean Power Technologies. The project is scheduled to be built up in three stages, with the first stage producing approximately 2.5-megawatt peak power.
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GE Bolsters Grid Efficiency with Meridium's Software
February 13, 2014
Meridium, maker of the Asset Performance Management (APM) system --- a software suite that combines historical and dynamic asset health information with criticality --- will infuse its data collection and distribution capabilities with GE's offering of distribution management software.
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Vehicle to Grid Technology Advances
February 12, 2014
Navigant Research forecasts that global V2G-enabled PEVs servicing the ancillary services
market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.3% from 2013 to 2022. Fleet
acquisitions will set the foundation of this market. However, individually owned V2G-enabled
PEVs will account for increasing portions of the market beginning in 2016 in select regions.
Meanwhile, conventional PEVs will add 2,410 MW of capacity to residential and commercial DR
programs globally.
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