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Current News
Honda Joins Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Demonstration Project
December 6, 2013
NRG and the University of Delaware, through their eV2g joint venture, came online early in 2013 with the world's first revenue-generating vehicle-to-grid project, demonstrating the controls, regulatory requirements, and market participation rules for selling energy storage from vehicles into the PJM Interconnection Regulation Market.
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SmartCloud Secures Strategic Investment from Rockwell Automation
December 6, 2013
SmartCloud gained notice in the smart grid market when it implemented the nation's first situation awareness system to monitor North America's bulk power system and alert staffs at FERC and NERC about emerging situations that could impact reliability.
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Flow Battery Maker Seeks to Change Economics of Grid-Scale Energy Storage
December 5, 2013
Safe, reliable, and economic storage on a megawatt scale is seen as a challenge facing energy storage within traditional utility systems. In this interview, VizNn Energy CEO Craig Wilkins shares insights on how his company is working to address this, as well as on the future of the energy storage market in general.
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Business Model Innovation In Electricity Services: A Comparison of Developing Models
December 5, 2013
While far from being a reality, Lux Research notes that the pairing of a lighting utility service model with a utility-operated microgrid-as-a-service model could enable new opportunities for utilities while providing a service that is cleaner, more reliable, and potentially more cost effective than the centralized approach used today.
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Emerging Markets' Smart Grid Investment To Reduce Annual Electricity Theft, Improve Reliability and Incorporate Renewables
December 4, 2013
Smart grid infrastructure investment by 45 emerging market countries - including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - over the next decade will reach $274.9bn, outpacing developed countries, according to Northeast Group, LLC.
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Toshiba to Launch Innovative Photovoltaic Power Business for Apartment Buildings in Germany
December 4, 2013
Toshiba is introducing an on-site PV power consumption model that is intended to operate independently of Germany's feed-in tariff system, and which is expected to reduce burden on the regional gird and the environment.
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Smart Energy Instruments and Hitachi High-Tech Launch New Chipset for Grid Reliability
December 4, 2013
SEI is a client of MaRS' Cleantech practice and a key investment in the MaRS Cleantech Fund. Its semiconductor chipset is a measurement and communications core for smart devices used in the generation and transmission of electric power.
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Frost & Sullivan's Predictions for the Global Energy and Environment Market
December 1, 2013
Urbanization and smart cities, the changing dynamics of unconventional gas, and opportunities generated from increased environmental awareness and legislation will be the key topics in 2014 and beyond.
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Department of Energy Awards New Grants For Energy Efficiency
December 1, 2013
The Energy Department recently awarded approximately $4 million to 13 states to increase statewide energy savings and boost the energy efficiency of public institutions, local governments and industrial sectors.
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SP AusNet Chooses Ericsson's Solution For Smart Meter Communications
November 26, 2013
Ericsson will provide a standards-based 3G network in Victoria, Australia designed to allow communications directly to smart meters over an existing Australian public mobile network.
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IUS Technologies Develops New Smart Sensors for Theft Detection
November 26, 2013
Forward-looking utilities are implementing smart sensors to complement AMI/AMR systems in detecting fraud, unauthorized use, and inefficient energy distribution . The line of sensors introduced by IUS is designed to provide power usage data that can be compared with AMI/AMR smart meter readings to pinpoint illegal or unauthorized power usage immediately.
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FERC Announces Rule Changes to Facilitate Interconnections for Small Renewable Energy Systems
November 22, 2013
In a far-reaching decision, yesterday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission adopted significant modifications to the agency's Small Generator Interconnection Procedures (SGIP), which should facilitate a more efficient interconnection process for small renewable generators.
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IEEE Approves Standard for Low-Frequency, Narrowband PLC Communications and Smart Grid Applications
November 22, 2013
Because the IEEE 1901.2 standard was natively designed for the modern smart grid, it leverages techniques and recent innovations in communications technology and the smart grid security framework.
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Self Healing Lithium-ion Battery Developed
November 22, 2013
Researchers at Stanford and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed a self-healing battery electrode that is likely to provide greater charge capacity in lithium-ion batteries.
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PSE&G Receives Support For "Energy Strong" Proposal
November 22, 2013
Energy Strong calls for investing $3.9 billion over 10 years, including $2.6 billion in the first five years, to protect critical facilities, install backup distribution lines and improve communications capabilities.
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Verizon Launches Security Suite to Protect the Internet of Things
November 20, 2013
One way to enable smart grid security is to provide certificates during device production or client-site installation. This way, devices can be authenticated when "talking" to each other while also maintaining a secure connection for the traffic to traverse. Devices not configured with a certificate would not be able to penetrate or "attach" to the network, helping to protect the energy grid from harm.
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DecisionPoint and Landis+Gyr Form Partnership
November 20, 2013
The agreement is focused on software tools used by technicians to install, provision and troubleshoot advanced meters in the field.
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Silver Spring Networks Introduces Smart City Network-as-a-Service Offering
November 19, 2013
The company is introducing a new Network-as-a-Service offering whereby it will deploy, manage and operate smart city networks on behalf of cities, allowing them to avoid upfront capital equipment and deployment costs as well as reduce operational and management expenditures.
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Duke Energy Carolinas Files New Renewable Energy Program
November 19, 2013
The Gree Source Rider is an experimental program designed to give energy-intensive customers, such as manufacturers, data centers, college campuses and big-box retailers, the option of offsetting some or all of their energy consumption from new load -- such as a new or expanded facility -- with renewable energy.
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Smart Cities Council Releases Readiness Guide
November 18, 2013
The Guide is a collection of guidelines, best practices and more than 50 case studies. It is intended to help a city create its own customized "wish list" with the confidence that it has not left out anything essential and that all the pieces will work together even if they are built in stages.
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EaglePicher Technologies Partners with Arista Power on New York City Demand Reduction Project
November 18, 2013
EPT's system is designed to provide 200 kW/900 kWh of energy storage integrated into Arista Power's Power on Demand (PoD) system that will be installed in the selected building. The system utilizes energy storage to reduce utility costs, specifically demand charges, and is intended to allow seamless enrollment to demand response programs.
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City of Holly Springs to Implement Smart Grid SaaS to Modernize Grid
November 15, 2013
Under the terms of the agreement, GE will provide Holly Springs with a pre-integrated package of services ranging from electric, water and gas meter services for the city's advanced metering infrastructure to prepaid electric billing on a consumer web portal. The package also includes services such as outage detection, asset monitoring and support for the city's grid for 10 years.
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