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The Maine Public Utilities Commission has voted to audit Central Maine Power’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) program, citing concerns about the increased costs and reduced benefits of the program.
Aging water and sewer infrastructure continues to be the top concern for the water industry in the United States, followed by the management of capital and operational costs, according to Black & Veatch’s second annual industry survey.
A partnership has been entered into between independent German utility LichtBlick and Görlitz AG to develop standardized hardware and software solutions to control decentralized ‘SchwarmStrom’ (SwarmElectricity) plants.
The PowerMatching City project enters its second phase with the initiation of a pilot in Groningen and Hoogkerk in the northern Netherlands in which consumers will test innovative, smart energy services related to sustainable energy choices and cost savings.
The French transmission system operator RTE has launched a smart substation pilot project involving the use of cutting edge digital and optical technologies to optimize the capacities of substations and ensure they are better able to deal with the mass expansion of renewable energies.
The emergence of the communications and control
technologies collectively referred to as the “smart grid” has
been the cause of much excitement in the electric utility
industry. Smart grid technologies offer the potential for
improving commercial operations, enhancing the energy
efficiency of distribution grids, increasing the penetration
of renewable generation, and enabling consumer choice. ... more
The energy sector is undergoing a generational transformation. The limitless availability of affordable energy, in particular electricity, is not a given as prevailing trends in energy provision and usage are unsustainable over the long term. Digitalisation of the electricity distribution grid is essential if we are to meet and manage demand with affordable energy, whilst simultaneously meeting decarbonisation targets.
Prof. Direk Lavansiri, Chairman, Energy Regulatory Commission, Thailand
In order to roll out smart metering and smart grid, ERC will need to prepare a roadmap together with a regulatory impact assessment to detail the appropriate regulatory model to ensure benefits to both operators and consumers – setting up a smart grids working group in order to exchange and transfer knowledge as well as to follow up the technologies and trends will push forward knowledge development and a common vision
Complexity science is attracting increasing interest to understand the behavior of complex systems with large numbers of interacting components, and now, according to the intriguingly titled “Smart Energy Grids and Complexity Science” from Europe’s Joint Research Center, it should also be applied to smart grids.
The WiMAX Forum has published System Profile Requirements for Smart Grid Applications, codifying the work done on the WiGRID IEEE 802.16 profile for utility field area networking applications.
