Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia

Beginning in July 2012, all new residential and commercial multi-unit projects in Georgia will be required to have submetering so that tenants will receive their individual consumption reports and be incentivized to practice conservation measures.

New protection measures will be required with the rollout of smart meters in Australia, in particular for low volume energy consumers who will encounter a proportionally higher cost increase for the rollout than will other consumers.

A large number of individual smart metering projects are underway or have been announced in Europe, according to the European Smart Metering Alliance’s (ESMA) latest annual progress report.

A consortium led by Queensland regional electricity distributor Ergon Energy has launched a bid for Au$100 million in federal funds to build a demonstration smart electricity grid for Australia.

Paraguay state utility Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE) has put out an international tender for the supply of advanced metering infrastructure for the company’s large customers served at medium voltage level.

• Ergon Energy and KEPCO team up on Smart Grid, Smart City project
• Orlando forms zero emission vehicle partnership with Renault-Nissan
• Expanded smart grid cyber security strategy and requirements released
• Large scale electric vehicle integration project launched in Europe

The water sector in Israel has been significantly transformed since the adoption of AMI (formerly AMR) by a number of utilities. ... more

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.

Debra L. Reed, President & CEO, SoCalGas and SDG&E

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.

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.