Imergy lowers cost of batteries using recovered vanadium
October 27, 2014 -- Imergy Power Systems, a Fremont, Calif-based manufacturer of flow-system batteries, last week introduced the ESP30 series of vanadium-flow batteries that it said dramatically lowers...
View ArticleNY Energy Manager to R&D energy controls
October 27, 2014 -- New York State's first energy management network operations center is open for business, Gov Andrew Cuomo, D, said last week. Called the NY Energy Manager (NYEM), the statewide hub...
View ArticleStarkville, Miss, picks Elster for full AMI rollout
October 27, 2014 -- The city of Starkville, Mississippi, will deploy Elster Solutions' AMI as part of its move toward a smart grid system, the Raleigh, NC-based smart grid gear maker said last week...
View ArticleFirstEnergy complaint on DR draws heavy debate
October 27, 2014 -- What if Supreme Court rejects appeal? What even is DR? PJM told FERC Wednesday that even if it agreed with FirstEnergy's interpretation that the EPSA (Electric Power Supply Assn)...
View ArticleSmart-city to be deployed by Telefonica/VIVO, ISPM in Brazil
October 28, 2014 -- Telefonica/VIVO, reportedly the largest telecom service provider in Brazil and based in São Paulo teamed with London-based TV software firm ISPM to transform the city of Águas de...
View ArticleConEdison reports progress in hardening grid after Sandy
October 28, 2014 -- Two days short of the second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy landfall in the Northeast, New York City IOU Consolidated Edison (ConEdison) reported passing the half-way point in its...
View ArticleSmall Alliant substation stymies Iowa wind project
October 28, 2014 -- At its October meeting, the Grinnell College Board of Trustees was forced to cancel plans to build a 5.1-MW wind farm north of its Grinnell, Iowa, campus that it believed would meet...
View ArticleLife360 to have app linking its system to Nest gear
October 28, 2014 -- Life360, a smart phone communication application, is working on an integration plan with the Nest Learning Thermostat to create an automated smart home system for climate control in...
View ArticleUI to integrate Ventyx software into legacy IT, OT systems
October 28, 2014 -- Connecticut IOU United Illuminating (UI) teamed with consultancy Accenture and utility-industry consultancy Structure to help the industrial software firm Ventyx implement an outage...
View ArticleEcoFactor auto-DR pleases NV Energy, Comcast users
October 28, 2014 -- EXCLUSIVE: Doubles Nest's figures, will sell to end users within months: While a home or business today can save on energy costs in various ways, few people have the time to become...
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October 29, 2014 -- JCPL uses line-worker mobile apps . . . Con Edison tries DR for EVs with Landis & Gyr . . . GM to make Volt power train in US . . . Onset data loggers picked to study STBs
View ArticlePSE&G CEO reports on post-Sandy work, smart grid
October 29, 2014 -- Superstorm Sandy was the most powerful and destructive storm in Public Service Electric & Gas' 111-year history, causing over 2 million of its 2.2 million customers to lose...
View ArticleDNV adds outage location to MV grid-monitoring system
October 29, 2014 -- DNV GL upgraded its Smart Cable Guard system, adding the ability to immediately pinpoint, within 1% accuracy, the exact location of a fault in an MV grid, reducing the time needed...
View ArticleSurvey finds affordable energy management needed
October 29, 2014 -- Although nearly 70% of corporate sustainability, engineering and facility managers are using some sort of technology to control and manage their buildings' energy use, most are...
View ArticleFPL to use S&C smart reclosers for entire utility footprint
October 29, 2014 -- Customers could see $500,000 savings per-year/feeder line: Florida Power & Light (FPL) picked S&C Electric's TripSaver II reclosers for use throughout the utility's 4.7...
View ArticleGeorgia Power picks GE to monitor transformers
October 29, 2014 -- Data from 2,000 transformers to improve reliability: GE announced yesterday what it called "an historic deal," to support efforts by Georgia Power to deliver more reliable power to...
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October 30, 2014 -- EnerNOC opens in Korea, starts with DR . . . DOE labs help drive clean-energy market
View ArticleGreenlots, Powertech to develop EV-friendly smart-home gear
October 30, 2014 -- EV technology firm Greenlots will work with Powertech Labs to develop a new smart home platform for homes to include EV charging gear, the two firms said yesterday. The San...
View ArticleDelta, DOE, DTE show off smart grid-connected EV chargers
October 30, 2014 -- Delta Products of Fremont, Calif, yesterday demonstrated its new smart EV charging technology at the Detroit headquarters of regional utility DTE Energy, the two firms told the...
View ArticleSandia to test TransPower storage, develop test protocols
October 30, 2014 -- DOE's Sandia National Lab (SNL) began evaluating TransPower's "GridSaver," it said last week, calling it the largest grid-energy storage system to be analyzed at the Energy Storage...
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