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Hourly load study of 800,000 U.S. utility customers shows utility returns vary widely A study of the hourly load of 800,000 utility customers at 200 of the largest utilities in the United States shows potential smart grid savings of 115,145 MW with avoided costs of more than $120 billion and net savings after smart grid costs of $48 billion. ... more
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Phil Bentley, Managing Director, British Gas
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British Gas to create 2,600 jobs to rollout smart meters
British Gas plans to create 2,600 skilled new jobs by 2012 to lead the rollout of smart meter technology across Britain. ... more
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Peter Mainz, CEO & President, Sensus
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Sensus acquires Telemetric Corporation
Sensus has announced that it has acquired the assets and business of smart grid cellular communication solution provider Telemetric Corporation. ... more |
Secure, accurate energy monitoring achieved with new MSP430 MCU for e-metering applications
Supporting three-phase electricity metering applications, the new ultra-low power MSP430F471xx microcontroller (MCU) series has been introduced by Texas Instruments Incorporated. ... more
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'Center of Excellence' in gas expertise being established
An agreement has been reached between KEMA and the European gas infrastructure company Gasunie under which KEMA will integrate Gasunie’s engineering and technology division (GET), which consists of approximately 90 people, into its existing gas activities. ... more
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Sustaining growth at Salt River Project
Salt River Project in Arizona is no stranger to smart meter technology, having been deploying smart metering for over a decade. In this interview Carrie Young, who leads SRP’s Revenue Cycle Services organization, talks about some of the company’s activities in this area, and its move towards a smart grid. ... more |
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| Products and Services A featured product of CEWE Instrument Panel Instruments: A full range of analogue and digital panel instruments for electrical measurements suitable for electrical panels in automation, distribution and control systems. Transducers: A full range of compact DIN rail mounted transducers for industry and electrical control systems in AC/DC systems. Energy Meters: We have a range of a high precision energy meters for Grid, Distribution and Industrial applications. The products are flexible with many options for communications and power quality measurements. Together with our ... more |
| Opinion Piece |
| A basic overview of HAN architecture for AMI The push for more consumer involvement in smart grid initiatives is slowly becoming more evident as companies and utilities attempt to grasp the overall impact of government mandated deployments of the smart meter. Understanding what the consumer needs and wants is quickly rising in importance with the goals and objectives of the energy industry. ... 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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