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Greener Leases Lead to Energy Transparency - and Savings

February 14, 2012 by Adam Sledd
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What does green leasing have to do with energy efficiency? Bringing energy transparency into the leasing process will help tenants and landlords alike better measure, and manage, their energy use. [read more]

How to Leverage Data to Increase Clean Tech Sales

January 30, 2012 by Christopher Williams
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In last month’s post “How to Grow Electric Vehicle Sales”, I discussed the importance of understanding your target customers so you can successfully market your new clean tech product or service. For instance, the people who brought the early Toyota Prius - typically middle aged, upper middle class, highly educated, environmentalists –... [read more]

New Privacy Guidelines for Electricity Data Will Help Protect Consumers

January 10, 2012 by Christine Hertzog
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It’s difficult to imagine life without electricity.  Our lives and lifestyles are so thoroughly intertwined with electricity that any disruptions in power can rapidly transform from minor inconveniences into life-threatening situations.  Thus the need for grid modernization – the Smart Grid – is vital to ensure that we continue... [read more]

Renewables, Energy Storage & Data Analytics: The 3 Sisters of the Smart Grid

December 19, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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American history buffs and foodies know the story of the three sisters of agriculture, a brilliant combinatorial planting technique practiced by Native Americans.  This uniquely American agricultural invention elegantly illustrates the concept of synergy.  Synergy is defined as the interactions of two or more things combined to... [read more]

Data Analytics Key To Smart Grid

October 25, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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In the movie “The Graduate”, Dustin Hoffman’s character was told that the future was in plastics. Today, he’d be told that the future is in data analytics. Just like many other business sectors are discovering, analytics will play an increasingly significant role in the management of Smart Grid networks. [read more]

Who is Responsible for Educating Consumers About Energy Data Privacy?

October 10, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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The Smart Grid presents a number of challenges to policy-makers and utilities, but perhaps none is more vexing than the question of who will educate consumers about the rewards and risks of energy consumption data that can be derived from smart meters and increasingly from products that can disaggregate electricity “signatures” to determine usage of specific devices behind a meter. [read more]

Data Analytics at the Grid Edge – Killer Apps or Overkill?

September 14, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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The recent exits of Google’s PowerMeter and Microsoft’s Hohm products targeted at consumers have some industry watchers asking if residential consumers really care about home energy consumption data.  Where we once had a monthly bill that simply indicated the previous month’s kilowatthours of electricity use, smart meters can... [read more]

Best Practices for Big Data in the Smart Distribution Grid

September 7, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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It’s big, complex, mission-critical, constantly in flux, and experiencing a convergence of information technologies (IT) and operations technologies (OT).  The distribution grid is the link of the electricity supply chain from the substation to the residential or commercial meter.  It has different characteristics and therefore... [read more]

Killer Apps For The Smartgrid

September 2, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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Silicon Valley is always chasing the next killer app, and it’s an activity that is very relevant to the Smart Grid.  What are the killer apps?  It depends on your perspective.  In some cases, the answer will be a technology breakthrough in materials science rather than an innovation in software or communications –... [read more]

The Real Concern about Smart Meters

August 18, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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Smart meters can be positively transformative for consumers to control their use of electricity.  But there are concerns about them that are threatening to slow down deployments in some areas. That has ramifications to Smart Grid plans everywhere. The three categories of concerns about smart meters are:    meter... [read more]

The Smart Grid’s Cyber-Security Questions

August 3, 2011 by Dick DeBlasio
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The stakes are steep. The challenge is nuanced and evolving. And, at this point, there areat least as many as questions as there are answers about how the job should be carriedout.Together, those factors make cyber-security one of the most talked-about topics in theSmart Grid conversation worldwide.In overlaying the electricity-delivery... [read more]

Smart Grid Data Management Provides New Challenges For Industry

June 30, 2011 by Dick DeBlasio
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Overlaying the power grid with a communications and control network will provide utilities with terrific new business capabilities. The Smart Grid figures to enable utilities to more effectively offset service theft, to monitor for and blunt the impact of outages, to better foresee and accommodate spikes in user demand with the rollout... [read more]

California PUC Proposes Energy Data Privacy Rules

May 10, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a proposed decision regarding the privacy and security of electricity usage data on May 6.  This proposal sets the stage for how consumer consumption data is managed by the three investor-owned utilities (IOUs) in California – Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California... [read more]

Smart Grid Data Management – The Start of an Outsourcing Trend?

April 26, 2011 by Christine Hertzog
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The new volumes of data that can be collected via Smart Grid-enabled solutions and innovative technologies create opportunities and challenges for utilities and consumers in residential, commercial, and industrial categories.  New data about equipment performance, building performance, and electricity consumption holds tremendous... [read more]

Does Smart Grid Mean Smart Data?

September 28, 2010 by Alex Torpey
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Throughout all of the talks about Smart Grid systems - the buzzword for the concept of a power grid that can both send electricity and communicate two ways instead of one - there is one piece that most fascinates me: What is going to be done with the enormous amount of data that is collected on a system using this grid? The implications... [read more]