Africa’s mobile communications revolution presents a promising new approach to improve the financial performance for water service providers, according to a new report from researchers at Oxford University.

Belgian grid operator Eandis and utility service company Infrax have selected Cuculus’ ZONOS platform with advanced metering management (AMM) functionality for a rollout of 61,000 smart meters.

The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) yesterday agreed to allow Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customers to retain an analog meter if they don’t wish to have a wireless smart meter installed.

A new two-way IP data service targeting the growing global market for smart metering and other machine-to-machine communications, BGAN M2M, has been launched by mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat.

More than 400,000 gas smart payment meters are to be provided by Itron to Azerbaijan state gas company Azeri Gas Production Union, a part of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).

Customer participation in the electricity market is extremely important, and one way of increasing that participation is demand response, which is an area that can deliver benefits both to the customers and to electricity systems, the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) has identified.

Australian water utility Wide Bay Water Corporation has selected Elster to supply V100 volumetric water meters and automated meter reading (AMR) technology over the next six months.

A number of the smart grid projects being funded through the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 do not have adequate cybersecurity requirements, according to the Department of Energy’s inspector general.

Empresa Eléctrica Pública de Guayaquil has been using Cooper Power Systems CYME™ Power Engineering Analysis Software for Transmission Systems (PSAF) for more than a decade, and is now working actively to complete a project using the CYME CYMDIST solution for distribution analysis.

Oracle has announced the ability to process more than one billion records and generate half million customer bills within an eight-hour nightly window using the Customer Care and Billing, Meter Data Management and Smart Grid Gateway systems, using a subset of data extracted from 30 billion interval meter reads, a volume level typical for a large utility.

Tendril and the BMW Group Technology Office USA have announced a partnership to build out a demonstration smart energy home in Mountain View, Calif. to prepare for the rollout and integration of the new BMW ActiveE electric vehicle (EV).

The ConnectPort® X2e for Smart Energy gateway has been introduced by Digi as a low cost, enhanced version of its ZigBee Smart Energy gateway.

There has been a 25 percent increase over last year in the number of utilities companies that have implemented smart grid technology, according to the Microsoft/OSIsoft Worldwide Utility Industry Survey for 2012.

Smart meters are helping to change the behavior of British households by enabling them to better manage and control their energy consumption, according to a new study from British Gas.

The U.S. Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has issued an updated version of the Interoperability Process Reference Manual, setting out the processes for accreditation of test laboratories and certifying organizations for evaluation of smart grid products and for testing of the products.

The iPERL(TM) smart water metering endpoint has now been introduced for markets outside of North America by Sensus.