AT&T expands footprint of smart home offering
August 25, 2014 -- AT&T is expanding its Digital Life home automation services, effective immediately, to 83 markets nationwide including Claremont, Keene and Laconia, NH; Shawnee, Okla, and...
View ArticleIEEE-SA to test PMUs with Consumers Energy
August 25, 2014 -- The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), based in Piscataway, NJ, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Michigan utility Consumers Energy to develop a "synchrophasor...
View ArticleEchelon sells grid operations to Austria's S&T
August 25, 2014 -- ANALYSTS: 'Fire sale' could signal 'market shakeout:' Echelon signed a definitive agreement to sell its grid operations to S&T, a Vienna, Austria-based publicly traded IT systems...
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August 26, 2014 -- PG&E restores power after earthquake . . . 3M invests in smart grid-related firm
View ArticleMoscow to compete in fast EV-charger market
August 26, 2014 -- Moscow-based KRET, a division of the Russian state energy firm Rostec, developed a rapid-charging technology called FOR A, it said this month, that it believes could be used...
View ArticleNIST officially seeks feedback on cybersecurity draft
August 26, 2014 -- NIST is seeking public comment on the draft cybersecurity framework it released in February, version 1.0 of its Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, in...
View ArticleIberdrola hits 3 million-meter mark on way to record
August 26, 2014 -- Earlier this month, Iberdrola -- a Bilbao, Spain-based private electric utility -- finished installing Spain's first 3 million smart meters under the STAR project (a Spanish acronym...
View ArticleGE shows off latest smart grid software options
August 26, 2014 -- Applications demoed at CIGRÉ tackle LV grid woes: GE's newest package of software -- customized to meet the needs of utilities in Europe and Australia -- will advance the management...
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August, 27, 2014 -- Wireless battery charging now available, even for EVs . . . BuildingIQ upgrades energy-management software
View ArticleVermont breaks ground on microgrid with solar, storage
August, 27, 2014 -- Aug 12, a consortium of government agencies, businesses and non-governmental organizations Aug 12 broke ground in Rutland, Vt, on a microgrid to provide emergency power to a...
View ArticleGroup tracks efforts to stop transmission projects
August, 27, 2014 -- A study released yesterday by the Center for Rural Affairs (CRA), a nonprofit group in Lyons, Neb, that advocates for family farms and rural communities, found opposition to new...
View ArticleNational Grid picks Trilliant for network to demo VVO
August, 27, 2014 -- Trilliant was picked by the London-based mega-utility National Grid to demo Volt/VAR optimization (VVO) in Rhode Island, the Redwood, Calif-based smart grid communications gear...
View ArticleQubitekk sees DOE cybersecurity funds, issues warning
August, 27, 2014 -- San Diego startup Qubitekk -- founded in 2012 as GridCom to commercialize quantum computing and cryptography technologies -- will benefit from a $3 million DOE grant to speed the...
View ArticleNew York PSC proposes letting utilities do DG, DR
August, 27, 2014 -- Straw-man argues benefits of markets, modernizing: The New York PSC staff issued a straw-man proposal Friday on how to achieve the commission's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV)...
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August 28, 2014 -- New DOE website offers real-time data . . . NRDC finds servers waste billions of KWHs . . . ZigBee Alliance certified products top 1,000
View ArticleGE Digital, Iberdrola to build smart HV ring around Nairobi
August 28, 2014 -- GE's Digital Energy business is teaming with Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción (IIC) -- an electrical engineering division of Madrid-based utility firm Iberdrola -- to build a...
View ArticleHawaii's big IOUs present smart grid plans
August 28, 2014 -- Hawaii's three largest electric utilities, all subsidiaries of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Tuesday proposed plans for the 50th state's energy future that augur the deployment of a...
View ArticleNew Sensus meters sense heat, some can shut off
August 28, 2014 -- Smart meter maker Sensus introduced the IConA and IConB, generation-four residential electric meters, offering expanded measuring, monitoring and protection capabilities, the firm...
View ArticleAlstom Grid demos asset-management at CIGRÉ
August 28, 2014 -- System uses hardware, software -- scales up or down: Alstom Grid demoed a new asset-management system comprising software, hardware and services that the Paris-based firm said could...
View ArticleLockheed Martin buys flow-battery firm Sun Catalytix
August 29, 2014 -- Lockheed Martin completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Sun Catalytix of Cambridge, Mass, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spinoff launched in...
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