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Silver Spring Swallows Greenbox

Silver Spring Swallows Greenbox

The well-funded smart grid networking startup plans to acquire the home energy management startup. It’s the latest in a series of acquisitions likely to expand in an industry seeking to grow to utility scale.

by Jeff St. John
Networking/AMI 0
GE Dives Into Korean Smart Meter Market With NURI Telecom

GE Dives Into Korean Smart Meter Market With NURI Telecom

General Electric and the Korean telecom want to bring about 18 million smart meters to South Korea in the next five years. They will have to convince national utility KEPCO that it’s worth the cost.

by Jeff St. John
Grid Edge 0
GridWeek: Chu Lays Out DOE’s Smart Grid Vision, Standards to Come

GridWeek: Chu Lays Out DOE’s Smart Grid Vision, Standards to Come

Energy Secretary Steven Chu briefed an international audience on America’s broad-ranging smart grid goals. Next up is a new round of federal smart grid standards due Thursday.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 0
Enel Considering Google’s PowerMeter for Pilot Project

Enel Considering Google’s PowerMeter for Pilot Project

The Italian utility has the largest number of smart meters in the world, about 30 million. Now it’s talking with Google about using its PowerMeter home energy display in a new pilot project.

by Jeff St. John
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Consert Claims Faster, More Complete Home Energy Network

Consert Claims Faster, More Complete Home Energy Network

The North Carolina startup is teaming with IBM on a home energy management pilot project. For about $200 to $250 it can set up real-time energy controls on major household loads, it says.

by Jeff St. John
Networking/AMI 0
Watteco Launches PLC Tech, Eyes EDF Smart Meter Plans

Watteco Launches PLC Tech, Eyes EDF Smart Meter Plans

The French maker of power line communications chips says its technology is more versatile and uses less power than rivals. Could French utility EDF, which is an investor, also become a customer?

by Jeff St. John
Smart Grid 2
IBM, Cisco Look to Tie Up Smart Grid Partners

IBM, Cisco Look to Tie Up Smart Grid Partners

IBM has launched a broad-based smart grid software platform with utility and vendor partners, and Cisco has formed an ‘Ecosystem’ of IP-ready vendors and a utility advisory board.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 1
Itron Asks OpenPeak to Link Meters

Itron Asks OpenPeak to Link Meters

Itron is linking its smart meters to home energy management devices from startup OpenPeak, which has links to the telecommunications industry.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 0
EnergyHub Gets Software, Gear Into ConEd Pilot Project

EnergyHub Gets Software, Gear Into ConEd Pilot Project

The Brooklyn-based startup lands its first named utility partnership, supplying about 100 homes in Queens with its dashboards and devices for monitoring and controlling home energy use.

by Jeff St. John
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Grid Energy Storage: Big Market, Tough to Tackle

Grid Energy Storage: Big Market, Tough to Tackle

Storing electricity for the grid could boom to a nearly $2.5 billion market by 2015, according to a new GTM Research report. But knowing which storage applications to target will be critical for early movers.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 0
U-SNAP Gets Google, GE, Utilities to Support Modular Smart Grid Comms

U-SNAP Gets Google, GE, Utilities to Support Modular Smart Grid Comms

The U-SNAP Alliance’s idea of modular communications for energy-aware home devices could get a lot more momentum, now that Google, General Electric and several smart grid companies and utilities have signed on.

by Jeff St. John
Energy Storage 0
AltairNano Looks to Supply Batteries to Hawaii Solar Project

AltairNano Looks to Supply Batteries to Hawaii Solar Project

The battery maker is competing with A123 for grid-scale energy storage contracts. Lithium-ion may be an up-and-coming tech for ‘power-oriented’ grid storage, says GTM Research analyst John Kluza.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Grid 0
Ambient Extends Smart Grid Contract With Duke

Ambient Extends Smart Grid Contract With Duke

Ambient will supply communications gear for Duke’s multi-million smart meter deployments. It’s just one of a number of confirmed and unconfirmed smart grid partners working with the country’s third-largest utility.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Grid 1
Grant Watch: Austin Energy, Oncor Seek Millions More for Smart Grid

Grant Watch: Austin Energy, Oncor Seek Millions More for Smart Grid

Austin Energy wants $123 million for itself and an affiliated nonprofit group for smart grid projects, and Oncor wants $3.5 million for transmission line monitoring.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Grid 2
Defense Contractors Pursue the Smart Grid

Defense Contractors Pursue the Smart Grid

Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon are bringing their cybersecurity expertise to smart grid projects. With utilities under the gun to meet new smart grid security rules, that could be a lucrative market.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Grid 0
PG&E Asks Cisco to Help Make 75K Businesses Energy Wise

PG&E Asks Cisco to Help Make 75K Businesses Energy Wise

PG&E has joined a short list of utilities looking to Cisco to assist its smart grid projects, including an $85 million plan to install energy management systems in about 75,000 businesses.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 0
Control4 Seeks Utility Partnership in TX

Control4 Seeks Utility Partnership in TX

The maker of high-end home automation systems – including energy monitoring systems – has landed its first utility partnership with the 65,000-member Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative.

by Jeff St. John
Networking/AMI 0
Echelon Expands Euro Smart Meter Biz

Echelon Expands Euro Smart Meter Biz

Echelon’s 500,000-home contract with utility Fortum in Finland expands its power line carrier technology in the European smart metering field.

by Jeff St. John
Networking/AMI 2
Mississippi Goes It Alone With Smart Meter Network

Mississippi Goes It Alone With Smart Meter Network

The state wants to install about 1,500 smart meters at state buildings using federal stimulus funds, which may represent a new, if smaller, market beyond utilities for smart meter vendors like Jackson, Miss.-based SmartSynch.

by Jeff St. John
Grid Edge 6
PG&E Wants DOE Dollars for Underground Air Energy Storage

PG&E Wants DOE Dollars for Underground Air Energy Storage

The utility wants $25 million in smart grid stimulus funds to build a compressed air energy storage system. While it’s one of the most efficient ways to store power on the grid, it also has some severe limitations.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Grid 0
SoCal Edison Wants A123’s Biggest Grid Battery Ever

SoCal Edison Wants A123’s Biggest Grid Battery Ever

The utility wants about $60 million in smart grid grants for two ambitious demonstration projects involving GE, Cisco, SunPower, IBM and Boeing. It also wants A123 to build the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery to help manage wind power.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Grid 3
BOMA Chicago’s $93M Smart Grid Stimulus Pitch

BOMA Chicago’s $93M Smart Grid Stimulus Pitch

The Chicago chapter of the country’s premier building owners trade group is the only non-utility asking for federal smart grid stimulus funds. Does it stand a chance?

by Jeff St. John
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Is Demand Response Doomed?

Is Demand Response Doomed?

Demand response companies could face pressure from providers of technology that lets utilities turn down peak power use by themselves. Or those demand response aggregators could take over that market.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Grid 0
What the DOE Wants in Smart Grid Grant Applications

What the DOE Wants in Smart Grid Grant Applications

Given the current beltway brouhaha about whether the economy needs another multi-hundred billion dollar fiscal boost, the DOE will likely fund most of the $3.4 billion in SGIG grants sooner, not later.

by John Kelley
Networking/AMI 2
LA’s Utility Seeks $200M Smart Grid Stimulus Grant

LA’s Utility Seeks $200M Smart Grid Stimulus Grant

The LADWP seeks $200 million in stimulus funds for a smart grid project, according to city documents. While details have yet to emerge, the city has said it likes public cellular networks for smart grid.

by Jeff St. John