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David Mohler,
VP and Chief
Technology Officer,
Duke Energy
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Duke Energy joins Home Plug Alliance The HomePlug(R) Powerline Alliance, today announced that Duke Energy, USA, which delivers energy to 4m customers has joined the Alliance's board of directors. ... more
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Chicago’s Com Ed to pilot large scale Smart Meter and Grid program
Com Ed will use $5 million in Recovery Act funding for the program, which will initially outfit 8,000 homes with advanced smart meters in order to test how well consumers manage their energy consumption when monitoring and programming are available. ... more
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Echelon ships 2 million NES smart meters
These meters will become part of the smart grid installation currently being deployed by Eltel Networks A/S for the Danish utility SEAS-NVE, in Denmark's largest smart grid project with over 390,000 smart meters. The announcement was made today at the 2010 Smart Metering Scandinavia event in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... more |
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John Field,
Director of
Carbon Management,
Power Efficiency
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CRC Energy Efficiency scheme in the UK places demand on AMR installers
Power Efficiency, a leading energy procurement and carbon strategy consultancy, has today warned that some of the UK’s 5,000 largest energy users required to take part in the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, may not get the measures to improve their league table performance in place before the close of the first year’s reporting on 31st March 2011. ... more
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Jim Greer, Senior
Vice President, Asset
Management &
Engineering, Oncor
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Oncor tests old mechanical and new smart meters
In an effort to prove the reliability of smart meters, three dozen homes have been fitted with old meters and smart meters side by side in North and Central Texas. Both meters will record usage for the home, allowing Oncor to see whether the smart meter runs faster than the old meter. ... more
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| Featured White Paper |
Smart Grids: Strategic Planning and Development
Without strategic executive leadership and involvement of all departments, utilities embarking on Smart Grid projects risk near-term revenue loss, less-than-optimal service delivery, and long-term excessive IT costs that customers and communities may not tolerate. Executive leadership and top-down design of Smart Grid projects can ensure maximum benefits at minimum long-term costs. ... more |
| Opinion Piece |
| AMI in Israel’s water sector The water sector in Israel has been significantly transformed since the adoption of AMI (formerly AMR) by a number of utilities. ... more |
| Regional Editors |
| Smart Energy East Coast – another home run hitter captures the New York market While many eyes were turned to the baseball world series taking place in New York City on October 27-28, 2009, the Smart Energy East Coast Conference was hitting a few home runs of its own that week. As the Yankees were in the midst of capturing their 27th world series, Spintelligent and its outstanding lineup of speakers and corporate sponsors were winning an equally important title in providing what many agreed was the best industry forum for discussion of critical smart grid issues on the East Coast this year. ... more |
| People in the News |
Management changes at SDG&E and SoCalGas
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Debra L. Reed,
President & CEO,
SoCalGas and SDG&E
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Sempra Energy and its subsidiaries including San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas Co. have announced a number of management changes designed, a company statement says, to bolster their organizations and enhance management experience. ... more |
| Column: ZigBee Alliance |
| ZigBee® in 2009 Perspectives and retrospectives are clichéd at this time of year, but there are real reasons to assess the state and direction of ZigBee in the coming year. We believe 2009 will be the year of ZigBee. Maybe Time will name ZigBee “Person of the Year” and feature a big, round and red Z on its cover. ... more |
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