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.
ECOtality, Silver Spring to Offer Smart Grid EV Charging
Electric transportation and storage technology company ECOtality Inc. and Silver Spring Networks Inc., have announced an agreement to integrate ECOtality's Blink electric vehicle charging stations with ...
Siemens to Buy eMeter
Siemens Industry Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire all of the stock of smart grid firm eMeter Corporation.
The parties expect to close the deal in ...
Suntech, Tesco, Schneider Take Home Gigatron Awards
Renewable energy firm Suntech, grocery chain Tesco and Schneider Electric are among those companies to receive awards for outstanding business leadership in carbon emissions reduction at ...
E-Mon Launches Smart Meter Range
Electric submetering firm E-Mon has released four new smart meter devices.
The new line of "D-Mon" products offers advanced energy information - including 38 metering parameters - ...
Enbala Connects American Water to PJM Smart Grid
American Water and Enbala Power Networks are two of the first companies to take advantage of new rules that allow industrial loads in ...
Five Questions To Ask About Grid-Interactive Energy
Renewable energy is a market on the move. With announcements coming nearly every day about the latest advances in harnessing the elements ...
Dominion, Power Assure to Attach Data Centers to Smart Grid
Virginia utility Dominion Power has invested $1 million in data center power management software company Power Assure as the companies begin a partnership to integrate data ...
Marriott to Install Demand Response at Over 250 Hotels
Marriott International and Constellation Energy have agreed to develop over 23 MW of load response capability across more than 250 of the hotel’s properties ...
Kimberly-Clark Taps EnerNOC for Demand Response
Kimberly-Clark Inc. has joined a network of facilities using EnerNOC Inc. technology to provide demand response capacity to the Ontario Power Authority.
The household products manufacturer will ...
Utilities’ Energy Efficiency Spend Varies Wildly, Study Finds
U.S. utilities each spent anywhere from $0.02 to $4.80 per MWh of retail sales on energy efficiency programs in 2009, according to a ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Compliance Survey Results, Bentley ISO 50001, Printing Cartridge Standard
The results are in from a survey of senior executives at more than 200 global process industry companies. According to the poll conducted by CSC and ...
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 ...
