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Metering International Edition 4, 2009
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Content Editor on Fri, 2009-11-27 15:30.
Current Affairs- Year of the smart grid
- Australia’s government gives go ahead to commercial scale smart grid deployment
- Energy technology coalition formed to develop San Diego smart grid
- New open... more
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The year of the smart grid
The awarding of the first tranche
of the United States smart grid
stimulus funding has come and
gone, with over $3.4 billion
awarded to one hundr...
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Australia’s government gives go ahead to commercial scale smart grid deployment
Australia’s government has
committed itself to funding
the “Smart Grid, Smart City”
initiative, which will see the
government and energy an...
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Energy technology coalition formed to develop San Diego smart grid
A coalition of 25 local, national
and global organisations under
the leadership of San Diego Gas
& Electric (SDG&E), University
of California San...
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New open communications standard for smart meters
A new open standard for smart metering systems, the Universal Metering Interface (UMIT), has been
launched by technology and innovation company Camb...
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US smart grid stimulus funding awarded
United States President Barack
Obama has announced the
allocation of almost $3.43 billion
in the first round of smart grid
stimulus funding award...
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Aneel reveals tentative plans for smart metering in Brazil
Brazil’s energy regulator
Aneel has revealed that it
is considering mandating a
10-year nationwide rollout of
approximately 63 million
smart m...
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eMeter announces Smart Start programme – provides scalable MDM and consumer engagement in 12 Weeks
California-based smart grid
management software provider
eMeter Corporation recently
announced SmartStart?, a
streamlined offering to get utiliti...
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EU smart meter requirements set out
Europe’s smart meter requirements have been set out in the 3rd Energy Package,
which came into force on 3 September 2009... m...
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North Delhi Power to implement advanced outage management system
North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL) has announced that it will become the first
major utility in India to realise the performance advantages of an adva...
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SCE kicks off 5 million smart meter installation
Southern California Edison (SCE) kicked off its $1.6 billion Edison SmartConnect
programme in mid-September with the installation of the first of 5 ...
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Electric vehicle technology roadmap for Canada outlined
The development of a charging infrastructure, codes and standards,
and policies, as well as public education and consumer acceptance
are among the ...
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New smart grid groups
The North American Electricity Reliability Corporation (NERC)
has established a Smart Grid Task Force to review the reliability
impacts of smart gr...
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AMI in Dominica: in the end, it's for customers
Engineers at Dominica Electricity Services
Limited (DOMLEC) are looking forward
to the day when they can use data from
advanced metering infrastru...
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Meter upgrades to continue in the US, but delays expected
Many utilities in the US see smart meters
as a foundational technology for changing
the relationship between the utility and the
consumer, optimis...
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Building a better smart grid with Echelon's power line communications
Utilities gain advantages when they
choose to build their smart grid solutions
with ISO standards-based power line
communications instead of meshe...
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US Navy's smart meters empower global enterprise solutions
The Department of the Navy’s advanced
metering infrastructure (AMI) programme
is being implemented to comply with the
Energy Policy Act 2005 (EP...
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The UK's smart grid journey begins ...
The UK’s transformational journey to a
smart grid and smart meter future will be a
very long journey indeed… but no matter
how long, it has to...
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San Diego Gas & Electric: a smart utility interview with Anne Shen Smith
SDG&E completed a successful rollout of our initial smart meter
test phase to 5,000 customers in August 2008. On March 16,
2009 we began installing...
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Oncor keeps focus on consumer Texas policy supports smart grid initiatives
Across the US, technology is sweeping away
reactive, one-way electric grids in favour
of proactive, intelligent systems that put
consumers in cont...
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Capitalising on the benefits of AMI technology
Salt River Project (SRP) began deploying smart meters
for its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) initiative in
2005. The primary business drive...
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Update on GridSmartCity™ Burlington Hydro's multidimensional smart grid modernisation
The smart grid race is on. Administrations are
setting the expectations, regulators are laying
the ground-rules and everyone with a stake is
jocke...
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IDIS, making interoperability a reality!
Itron embraces open interface specifications,
simplifying and future-proofing both software
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The new electricity age - interview with Ralf Christian
The smart grid market is growing rapidly, driven
by the growing realisation of the importance
of smart grids in underpinning future electricity
su...
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The NIST interoperability framework for the smart grid
In the United States and many other countries,
modernisation of the electric power grid is
central to national efforts to increase energy
efficien...
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Meter, meter on the wall... so much smarter than before
Malta is a small independent nation state in the centre of
the Mediterranean, around 95 km from Italy and
290 km from the North African coast. The ...
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The smart money is on smart energy
The American government has launched
a number of initiatives to stimulate the
economy. Some will work and, unfortunately,
some will not. I believe...
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Recent advancements in power line communications make it an ideal technology platform for the smart grid
Fast, secure, and reliable communications
are critical for the “energy internet,” an entire
interconnected network of interactive smart
device...
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From policy to implementation: the status of Europe's smart metering market
The European electricity market went through a significant
transformation during the 1990s. It transformed from a
monopoly structure to a structura...
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Smart grid can generate $110 million in annual benefits for typical utility
A typical electric utility can expect smart grid technology to generate at least
$110 million per year through a wide range of benefits, from increa...
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Masdar City to pilot smart appliances
Masdar City is to undertake a pilot programme to investigate the reduction
of peak power demand through the use of smart, demand response-enabled
h...
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Call for water metering and volumetric charging in Ireland
Ireland’s Commission for Taxation has issued a call for water metering and volumetric
charging in order to encourage water conservation and to gen...
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Street lighting problems and solutions
One of the first projects for street lighting, if
we can apply these words to the tenth century,
was implemented in Cordoba, Spain, about
one thou...
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Trends and thoughts on in-home energy displays - interview with Joel Hagan, Chief Executive of Onzo
In-home displays are increasingly coming
under the spotlight as an adjunct to advanced
metering infrastructure (AMI) to provide energy
usage and o...
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Trends and thoughts on in-home energy displays - interview with Joel Hagan, Chief Executive of Onzo
In-home displays are increasingly coming
under the spotlight as an adjunct to advanced
metering infrastructure (AMI) to provide energy
usage and o...
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Advanced metering Iskraemeco - connecting to the future choice of futureproof AMI solution is challenging utilities
There is a lot of discussion about the technical
characteristics of proper AMI solutions,
functionalities, benefits etc., but utilities still find
...
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Elster Group – Positioned for the future - An interview with Simon Beresford-Wylie, CEO of Elster Group
In November, Simon Beresford-Wylie became the new CEO of
Elster Group and Metering International had an opportunity to
gain his perspective on his ...
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Taking steps towards realising smart grid vision
We are getting closer to the creation of a
smart grid environment thanks to progress in
interoperability and technology. With the right
tools and ...
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Radio mobile reading delivers advanced functions
Every day, water utilities require more
comprehensive information in order to supply
high class water services in an efficient way.
Thanks to year...
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The government said yes to the smart grid - now what?
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Content Editor on Tue, 2009-12-01 09:19.
The United States just announced $3.4 billion in
smart grid grants (total projects of $8.1 billion),
mostly for smart meters. China announced 200
billion yuan for smart grid. Australia is giving
out $100 million for it. The EU is requiring the
installation... more
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