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Standards & Compliance Briefing: ZigBee, EMAS, ISO 14001, LEED

May 24, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

The ZigBee Alliance says there are now more than 500 ZigBee certified products available to the market, a 60 percent increase since August 2011. This makes ZigBee – designed for monitoring, controlling and automating the delivery and smart use of energy and water – among the most widely-used IEEE 802.15.4 ... Read more »

National Grid, PacifiCorp Among Latest Green Button Commitments

May 3, 2012June 18, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

National Grid, PacifiCorp, PPL, TXU Energy and Chattanooga EPB yesterday committed to provide more than 8 million businesses and households with easy access to their energy use data with the click of on online Green Button, the White House said. Also yesterday, software companies EnergyAI, Melon Power, Performance Systems Development, ... Read more »

Pennsylvania Electric Trains, Viridity to Sell Energy Back to Grid

April 30, 2012April 30, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains are on track to becoming virtual power generators, putting energy back into the electric grid as they put on the brakes. Viridity Energy, a Philadelphia-based demand-side energy startup, says it has reached a “significant milestone” in enabling SEPTA to capture the kinetic energy created from ... Read more »

U.S. Credit Rating ‘Threatens Smart Grid Deployment’

April 19, 2012April 19, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The U.S. and the EU plan to coordinate the development of smart grid standards, if financial frugality can be overcome, according to a report by business intelligence firm GBI Research. The report says the U.S. plans to implement smart grid technology to reduce the national energy demand by 20 percent, ... Read more »

IBM, Honda, PG&E Launch Smart EV Charging Project

April 12, 2012April 12, 2012 by Leon Walker

IBM, Honda’s American arm and Pacific Gas and Electric will collaborate on a pilot project to allow communication between electric vehicles and the power grid, the companies have announced. The project aims to demonstrate and test an electric vehicle’s ability to receive and respond to charge instructions based on the ... Read more »

Smart Grid Spending to Reach $46.4bn in 2015; Software and IT Valued at $2.9bn by 2017

April 10, 2012 by Leon Walker

Global smart grid spending will grow at a CAGR of 17.4 percent from 2010 to 2015 to reach $46.4 billion, while the smart grid software market will hit $2.9 billion by 2017, according to two reports released this week. Smart Grid IT Systems from Pike Research said that the global ... Read more »

Green Button Energy Data Initiative Targets Commercial Market

March 23, 2012March 26, 2012 by Leon Walker

Smart grid firms Itron, OPower, Oracle, and Silver Spring Networks have announced their support for the White House’s online Green Button initiative, which aims to allow consumers and businesses easy access to information on their energy consumption. The open data Green Button initiative aims to set a standard data format ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: BREEAM, LEED, FSC, GreenChill, IEEE Smart Grid

March 20, 2012March 20, 2012 by Leon Walker

The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED green building program will now recognize credits from BREEAM, the U.K.’s green rating program. The recognition will begin with LEED for New Construction and the most recent International version of BREEAM. Many international green building projects pursue dual certification with both LEED and BREEAM, ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Smart Grid Roadmap, Energy Star Objections, ISO 14001, LEED

March 1, 2012June 23, 2013 by Leon Walker

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finished incorporating public comments into the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0, a plan for updating the nation’s electric power system into an interoperable smart grid. The final 2.0 framework adds 22 standards, specifications and guidelines ... Read more »

ACEEE Details Smart Grid Savings Up To 19.5%

February 24, 2012February 29, 2012 by Leon Walker

Residential smart grid projects have resulted in energy savings of up to 19.5 percent, and produce average savings of 3.8 percent, according to research by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Recent smart grid policy initiatives in the United States and the EU have led to large-scale research projects investigating ... Read more »

Cleantech Innovations Continue to Thrive

February 21, 2012February 18, 2012 by John M Lazarus

Cleantech innovations continue to thrive, a sign that viability for eco-friendly energy technologies is continuing. With increasing opportunity to innovate in this sector, many wonder which technologies areas are most likely to prevail. A recent analysis of the cleantech patent landscape trends illustrates the hot cleantech categories, the up-and-coming technology ... Read more »

Smart Grid Briefing: Honeywell, Constellation, Lockheed Martin, Retroficiency

January 27, 2012March 12, 2020 by Tamar Wilner

Smart grid and demand response announcements have come thick and fast from this year’s DistribuTECH conference, which just wrapped up in San Antonio. Some of the biggest items from the conference and around the web: Honeywell and utility SSE launched a full-scale smart grid project that will connect up to ... Read more »

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