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Hacking the Grid: Is Smarter Less Secure?

Hacking the Grid: Is Smarter Less Secure?

Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electricity grid and left malicious software to disrupt it, the Wall Street Journal reports, raising questions about whether "smart grid" efforts are opening the grid up to more hacking.

by Jeff St. John
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Notes From a National Smart Grid Experiment

Notes From a National Smart Grid Experiment

Italy had smart grid before the name even existed, says Echelon's CTO Bob Dolin, and it works. Plus, what's next in America.

by Michael Kanellos
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Hughes Offers Utility Communications

Hughes Offers Utility Communications

The provider of satellite and land-based communications is making a push into serving utilities, with about six pilots underway. It's yet another company seeking to give utilities a way to manage the flow of data on the grid.

by Jeff St. John
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Massachusetts Mulls Smart Meter Pilots

Massachusetts Mulls Smart Meter Pilots

National Grid plans 15,000-customer smart meter pilot in Worcester, Mass., but isn't saying which companies are involved. Meanwhile, a 3,000-customer pilot from utility NStar will use Tendril Networks' system for hooking up one-way communicating meters via broadband connections.

by Jeff St. John
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A Feeling and Thinking Distribution Grid

A Feeling and Thinking Distribution Grid

EnergyAustralia is installing about 12,000 sensors from Denmark's PowerSense on its distribution grids, with an eye towards catching power outages and maintenance problems to save time and money.

by Jeff St. John
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Optimistic News in Greentech VC

Optimistic News in Greentech VC

VC investment in green technologies totaled more than $836.1 million in 59 deals in the first quarter of 2009, writes GTM Research's Eric Wesoff.

by Eric Wesoff
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Google Invests in Silver Spring; Expect More

Google Invests in Silver Spring; Expect More

The search giant, which has been investing in startups through its philanthropy arm, has created a standard fund that will spend $100 million in 12 months.

by Michael Kanellos
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GE Offers WiMax Smart Meter Solution

GE Offers WiMax Smart Meter Solution

General Electric will deploy WiMax radios as part of a smart meter project by utility CenterPoint Energy. GE is also partners with Grid Net, which has technology for putting WiMax Internet routers in smart meters. Could this be the first glimpse of a WiMax-enabled smart grid?

by Jeff St. John
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Integrating the Smart Meter Universe

Integrating the Smart Meter Universe

SAP is bringing utilities software to integrate smart meter data into their customer service and asset management systems. But it isn't alone in this.

by Jeff St. John
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Verizon to Add Energy Management to FiOS

Verizon to Add Energy Management to FiOS

The telecommunications giant says it is ready to support home energy management as part of its FiOS broadband offering — and sources say that will happen some time this year. How telecoms might compete or cooperate with utilities to give homeowners ways to control energy use remains to be seen.

by Jeff St. John
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EnerNoc Harvests Power in Maryland

EnerNoc Harvests Power in Maryland

Demand Response is cheap, quick and possible. What's not to like? The company will now deliver 250 megawatts of power to four utilities in Maryland.

by Michael Kanellos
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Are Telcos Eyeing Home Energy Management?

Are Telcos Eyeing Home Energy Management?

That's what the CEO of a U.K.-based home system management company sees coming. He's working with British Telecom to help it add home energy management services to its phone, TV and Internet offerings in the U.K.

by Jeff St. John
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Will Utilities or Customers Lead in Smart Grid?

Will Utilities or Customers Lead in Smart Grid?

Which comes first in smart grid, the utility or the customer? For venture capitalists looking for smart grid business plans they can back with confidence, that's a very important question – and the answer, not surprisingly, is a little of both.

by Jeff St. John
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Your Electrical Meter Becomes a Cell Phone

Your Electrical Meter Becomes a Cell Phone

Smart grid vendor SmartSynch will use AT&T's sprawling wireless network as the backbone for its residential smart meters. It paves the way for proliferation, the companies say.

by Jeff St. John
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Stimulus: How the Smart Grid Could Make Out

Stimulus: How the Smart Grid Could Make Out

IDC sees the $787 billion federal stimulus package spurring $77.6 billion in revenues for various "green" energy industries. Most of that is headed for renewable energy – but smart grid observer Jesse Berst thinks smart grid companies could grow revenues by twice as much as the $8.6 billion IDC predicts.

by Jeff St. John
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Green Jobs: Myth or Reality?

Green Jobs: Myth or Reality?

Claims that "green" jobs will help lift the economy out of a recession are too optimistic, according to a six-university study released Monday. Not so, say backers of stimulus for renewable energy, smart grid and energy efficiency to boost job growth.

by Jeff St. John
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The Smart Home, Part II

The Smart Home, Part II

The emerging "Home Area Network" is still very much in flux – and the same goes for companies seeking to make products, software and networking systems to be a part of it.

by Jeff St. John
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The Smart Home, Part I

The Smart Home, Part I

Smart grid proponents like to talk about the "Home Area Network" – a communications network for thermostats, appliances and electronics that can display the energy they're using. But getting there will take a lot of time and money.

by Jeff St. John
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Draft Legislation a Boon for Solar, Smart Grid

Draft Legislation a Boon for Solar, Smart Grid

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office has released a draft of legislation that would give the federal government power to speed the siting of transmission lines from remote zones to population centers.

by Jeff St. John
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Trilliant Lands GE Vet as CEO

Trilliant Lands GE Vet as CEO

Andrew White, a 30-year General Electric veteran, has left GE New Energy Venture to take over as CEO of the smart grid company.

by Jeff St. John
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Will Utilities Control Your TV?

Will Utilities Control Your TV?

The ZigBee Alliance and a consortium including Sony, Panasonic, Philips and Samsung have agreed on a ZigBee-based remote control standard. Home energy monitoring and control makers say that's a route into controlling TVs and other devices using their favorite wireless standard.

by Jeff St. John
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Echelon Beefs Up LonWorks

Echelon Beefs Up LonWorks

The 20-year-old maker of building automation system technology and smart meters has released a new version of its building management control technology aimed at making it easier to integrate "energy aware" systems and devices. Could that help it break into the U.S. smart grid market?

by Jeff St. John
Finance & VC 0
The Key to Greentech Success: Big Brothers

The Key to Greentech Success: Big Brothers

Green technologies will impact everyone on the planet, but who wins and loses will be determined by a small number of people.

by Michael Kanellos
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IBM Tests Smart Charging in Denmark

IBM Tests Smart Charging in Denmark

The computing giant is making another smart grid foray, simulating how to match intermittent wind power to charging electric vehicles on a Danish island with 40,000 residents. Dong Energy and Better Place are also eyeing Denmark.

by Jeff St. John
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GE Says Smart Grid Equal to 41GW of Power Plants

GE Says Smart Grid Equal to 41GW of Power Plants

Steve Fludder, vice president of Ecomagination at GE, says smart grid technologies could displace 41,000 megawatts. He's got views on other things going on at GE too.

by Michael Kanellos