Smart Grid
Smart Grid describes a wide variety of applications that automate electrical distribution and monitoring for increased energy efficiency. Companies are increasing their deployment of Smart Grid applications as part of their efforts to drive energy efficiency.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: China Bulb Ban, Toxics Reporting, Superfund Renewables
China is the latest country to ban the import and sale of incandescent light bulbs, Reuters reported. The country's National Development and Reform ...
Wireless Tech ‘Key to Energy Savings’
An emerging wireless-enabled environment has the potential to drive billions of dollars in energy savings in a range of American industries, according to a report by ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: China Gas Tax, EPA Lawsuits, California Recycling Law
China will impose a nationwide value-based sales tax on oil and natural gas beginning next month, Bloomberg reported. The country's Ministry of Finance said the ...
Save Building Energy with an IT Retrofit, says Microsoft
It can prove more cost efficient and less resource-intensive to introduce software that harnesses and utilizes building systems already in use, than to carry out a ...
Environmental Software Briefing: Aecom, Tendril, Ecobee, Constellation Energy, Silver Spring
Consultancy Aecom has developed a tool to assess the sustainability performance of a company’s supply chain. The Supplier Tracking and Assessment tool for Sustainability collects, ...
Energy Management Tech Briefing: Sprint, Proliphix, SmartLabs, Tendril, Elster, Lutron, Tantalus
Sprint has announced collaborations with Proliphix and SmartLabs aimed at making energy management tools easy for businesses to install.
The Proliphix IMT-550 ...
Elster Announces Universal Smart Grid Meter Platform
Smart grid company Elster has announced that its fully integrated universal meter and radio platform, the RexUniversal meter, should be commercially available in North America in ...
Compliance & Standards Briefing: REACH Additions, GRI's G4, e-Waste Pledge Sunsets
The European Chemicals Agency has proposed to add 20 chemicals to its list of "substances of very high concern" (SVHC) list, as defined by ...
Oracle, eMeter, Itron Top Meter Data Management Rankings
Oracle, eMeter and Itron are the three best-positioned vendors of meter data management systems, according to a report by Pike Research.
The “Pike ...
Campus Microgrid Market to Boom
Total installed generation capacity for campus microgrids will increase by 164 percent between 2011 and 2017, rising from 620 megawatts to 1.6 gigawatts, according ...
WPPI Taps Siemens, eMeter for Smart Grid Install
Siemens Energy is installing meter data management system eMeter EnergyIP for Midwest-based WPPI Energy and its member utilities.
The eMeter management system will allow WPPI members to ...
Contract Briefing: Xiolink, Siemens, Endesa, Ala. Corrections
Xiolink, a provider of private cloud computing and managed infrastructure, has selected Modius’s OpenData Enterprise Edition to monitor, maintain, and provide analytics ...
The Energy Storage Hand Gets More Interesting
The cards dealt to the energy storage industry are looking better now than in the past. Here are three of them, ...
Environmental Software Briefing: Westin, Silver Spring, Freestyle, BuildingIQ
Telkonet Inc. has announced that it will install its EcoSmart Suite energy management platform at Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers' Westin Alexandria Hotel (pictured).
The EcoSmart platform will control ...
How a Feed-in Tariff Could Revolutionize the Grid
Robert James Woolsey, Former Director, CIA, Discusses how a ...
EnerNOC Dispatched At Record Levels as US Sizzles
EnerNOC said that its DemandSMART demand response network was dispatched at record levels last Friday, helping to mitigate blackout risks ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Recyclebank, Serious Energy, SunPower, PHH
Serious Energy: The manufacturer of energy-efficient building components and software has appointed John Pitcher as vice president of ...
FERC Chairman Wellinghoff Discusses Urban Smart Grid
Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, gives keynote at Urban Smart Grid and Energy Innovation ...
Siemens Hiring 400 for Green Building Tech; DOE Fund Takes 11 Products to Market
Siemens USA is seeking to fill over 400 open positions in its green building technologies division, across 39 states.
The company says the ...
Market Changes, Energy Pricing Driving Enterprise Smart Grid
As the world comes out of recession, smart grid technology is set to emerge with a far wider usage base, according to a ...
