smart grid

Smart Grid Revenue

If you’re placing bets on which sector of the clean energy industry is primed for the strongest growth in the future, you may want to slide a few more chips toward the smart grid.[read more]

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How can vendors overcome inertia? The way workforce management vendors succeeded was through persistent education of prospective buyers that identified an array of benefits that covered tangible bottom line impacts.[read more]

C3 Energy data integration

C3 Energy has quietly been building on an audacious promise: a big data integration and analytics engine, hosted in the cloud, that can aggregate and put to use information for big energy systems.[read more]

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A new white paper offers practical suggestions that help accelerate the transformation to a Smart Grid. It also helps build the foundation for the transactive energy business model.[read more]

charging infrastructure

Electric cars are one of the key pieces of the renewable energy economy of the future, but so far, there hasn’t been much investigation into how smart grid technology could help with electric car charging infrastructure.[read more]

Jon Wellinghoff

Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is resigning his post after a tenure marked by formative support for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and smart grid technologies.[read more]

cellular smart grid

Whether it’s known as “smart grid as a service” or another name, the idea is to open smart grid investments and benefits to the mass of utilities that can’t afford doing all the heavy IT lifting on their own.[read more]

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The Smart Grid will transform roles from consumption to prosumption – producing electricity as well as consuming it. One of the most prominent enablers to engage as prosumers are the buildings where we live and work.[read more]

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Natural gas is a fuel for electricity generation that serves as a bridge to a Smart Grid that fully integrates renewables and energy storage into the energy portfolio.[read more]

smart meter

A new report predicts that smart meter installations will drop more than 35 percent through 2014 in North America, due to the depletion of stimulus money granted by the first-term Obama administration.[read more]

PJM's demand reponse

Increasing reliance on smart technology to revolutionize the way efficiency is utilized represents a departure from the supply-side approach that has traditionally governed the "dumb," centralized electricity system of years past.[read more]

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If we can identify the right materials to harvest the energy lost to heat, vibration, sound, movement, and light into electricity, we can really embed energy efficiency where it counts.[read more]

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An analysis from the US Department of Energy (DOE), reports smart grid projects created nearly $7 billion total economic output, nearly 50,000 jobs, and over $1 billion in government tax revenue.[read more]

smart city

The focus on vertical technology platforms has given way to the horizontal approach where each device is considered within an open platform to create a true communications ecosystem.[read more]

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Machine-to-Machine technology is revolutionizing the energy industry, and helping reduce CO2 emissions. If a new report is correct, M2M could even be a savior for climate change.[read more]