The Illinois General Assembly yesterday overturned Gov Pat Quinn's, D, veto of a bill to speed up the beginning of deployment of Commonwealth Edison's (ComEd) smart meters from 2015 to this year. The bill is now law...

Smart grid technologies could save £135 million (US$204 million) on power distribution costs in three regions of England from 2015-2013 -- London, the South East and East -- Nick Heyward, project director for future networks at UK Power Networks, told an industry conference in Stratford-upon-Avon this week...

National Grid pilot delayed by permit error ... Viridity software tells users when to expect DR ...

Consumers are interacting on a near-daily basis with OPower's app for Wi-Fi thermostats that gives them control of their home energy use, Roderick Morris, the firm's senior VP for marketing and operations, told us this week at a Deloitte & Touche-sponsored energy conference in Maryland's newest town, National Harbor...

A story we published yesterday was changed online to accurately describe the tests Cisco conducted related to its substation products as being for packet networks based on IP/MPLS.  The spelling of Cisco’s Bradley Tips' last name was corrected, too (changes made 2013-May-7, 2:01 PM Eastern US time).

The Illinois General Assembly yesterday overturned Gov Pat Quinn's, D, veto of a bill to speed up the beginning of deployment of Commonwealth Edison's (ComEd) smart meters from 2015 to this year. The bill is now law...

A "lack of any kind of a coherent plan" or "priority-setting process" from US policymakers has hindered the development of smart grid and alternative fuels, John Hofmeister, CEO of the nonprofit Citizens for Affordable Energy (CAE) and former president of Shell Oil, told us yesterday...

The "lengthy, industry-driven process by which grid security standards are set results in long delays and haphazard implementation of the voluntary security recommendations the [power] industry refuses to make mandatory," US Reps Ed Markey, D-Mass, and Henry Waxman, D-Calif, told the press yesterday. They were publicizing a they said drew on talks with over 100 utilities in the US...

Consumers are interacting on a near-daily basis with OPower's app for Wi-Fi thermostats that gives them control of their home energy use, Roderick Morris, the firm's senior VP for marketing and operations, told us this week at a Deloitte & Touche-sponsored energy conference in Maryland's newest town, National Harbor...

The US microgrid market will thrive over the next several years despite DOD investment in the sector drying up, Kurt Yeager, vice chairman of the nonprofit Galvin Electricity Initiative, told us yesterday...

EnerNOC took part in an OpenADR Alliance test hosted by NIST that demonstrated the interoperability of OpenADR 2.0b capabilities such as the Extensible Messaging & Presence Protocol (XMPP), the Boston-based DR firm told the press yesterday...

Penn State is guiding a new project that "will serve as a valuable hub for workforce training, building performance testing, energy management research and "smart" microgrid modernization deployments," the university told the press last week...

The Illinois General Assembly yesterday overturned Gov Pat Quinn's, D, veto of a bill to speed up the beginning of deployment of Commonwealth Edison's (ComEd) smart meters from 2015 to this year. The bill is now law...

The New York PSC authorized the New York State Energy R&D Authority (NYSERDA) to reallocate over $29 million in funding for renewables to technologies that have seen a spike in demand...

About 470 DA smart switches installed by Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) in the first year of its smart grid program resulted in 82,000 fewer power interruptions, the Chicago-based utility told the press last week...

Last year represented "by far the most productive year of the EmPower Maryland program and we expect continued acceleration of savings as we move forward," Kevin Lucas, director of energy market strategies at the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA), told us last week...

National Grid will build a "sustainability hub" for grid-related education materials at the site of its smart grid pilot project in Worcester, Mass, the utility told the press yesterday...

A "lack of any kind of a coherent plan" or "priority-setting process" from US policymakers has hindered the development of smart grid and alternative fuels, John Hofmeister, CEO of the nonprofit Citizens for Affordable Energy (CAE) and former president of Shell Oil, told us yesterday...

Facilities management and food provider Sodexo chose Constellation as its preferred competitive energy supplier for US customers as part of Sodexo's energy and construction services, it told the press yesterday...

Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) awarded four customers a $45,000 smart-home "makeover" via energy-efficient appliances, the Chicago-based utility told the press last week...

Consumers are interacting on a near-daily basis with OPower's app for Wi-Fi thermostats that gives them control of their home energy use, Roderick Morris, the firm's senior VP for marketing and operations, told us this week at a Deloitte & Touche-sponsored energy conference in Maryland's newest town, National Harbor...

For energy storage to get fair consideration in procurement contracts, utilities need to properly value the greater reliability that the technology delivers compared with peaking power plants, AES Energy Storage President Chris Shelton told us last week...

The Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR) project in the UK recently completed the first stage of its research into power use by setting up a series of trials with 12,000 customers, Liz Sidebotham, communications manager for the CLNR project, told the press recently...

Test equipment from Dell systems, National Instruments and Schneider is arriving at Pecan Street Inc's new lab, the Pike Powers Laboratory & Center for Commercialization. The organization is bringing to life "the only testing facility in the United States that can do verification of disaggregation algorithms," Pecan Street CEO Brewster McCracken told us during a recent visit to the housing development where the lab is situated, in Austin, Texas...

The US DOE and Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE) yesterday reaffirmed a 2011 bilateral commitment to the smart grid and noted progress made since then in a meeting in Washington, DC...

Penn State is guiding a new project that "will serve as a valuable hub for workforce training, building performance testing, energy management research and "smart" microgrid modernization deployments," the university told the press last week...

The ZigBee Alliance recently ratified the "Smart Energy Profile 2" (SEP 2) standard, saying it "provides IP-based information and control for energy management" in HANs for wired and wireless networks...

Five-year-old Greensmith Energy Management Systems is preparing to significantly expand its staff and close a big round of funding, CEO John Jung told us in an exclusive interview recently...

Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) seeks regulatory approval to move ahead with a smart meter opt-out plan, the utility said Friday...

Consumers are interacting on a near-daily basis with OPower's app for Wi-Fi thermostats that gives them control of their home energy use, Roderick Morris, the firm's senior VP for marketing and operations, told us this week at a Deloitte & Touche-sponsored energy conference in Maryland's newest town, National Harbor...

PJM met the serious challenges Hurricane Sandy posed to its operating area by relying on a diverse mix of power sources and scheduling backup generation for plants in advance of the storm, the RTO said in an annual report it released recently...

A clear victor has emerged in the PLC standards battle between G.hn and HomePlug and "when it comes to the smart grid, it really is all HomePlug," HomePlug Alliance President Rob Ranck told us yesterday...

An energy bill being mulled by the UK government could set up a capacity market that unfairly favors generation assets in the provision of DR, London-based DR aggregator Kiwi Power told the press yesterday...

At least 1,342 DR programs are underway worldwide -- 95% of them in North America, Navigant Research told the press this week as it publicized a new, $3,200 report...

Penn State is guiding a new project that "will serve as a valuable hub for workforce training, building performance testing, energy management research and "smart" microgrid modernization deployments," the university told the press last week...

Belgium's IMEC (the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) -- a non-profit, nanoelectronics research group -- and Japanese semiconductor giant Renesas Electronics are set to jointly research ultra-low power (ULP) wireless technologies for short-range communication, the pair told the press last week. The work will target sensor networks, especially, they added...

Prepaid power products end up saving energy when customers have them and it is not a result of losing service, consulting firm Distributed Energy Financial Group (DEFG) said in a report released yesterday...

The AES Energy Storage Laurel Mountain facility surpassed the 400,000 MWH-mark of regulation service to the PJM Interconnection, the firm told the press yesterday...

A new Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) project aims to develop a clearer framework for public-private cooperation on grid cybersecurity than the patchwork currently in place, Curt Hébert, a former FERC chairman who is co-chairing the project, told us yesterday...

For energy storage to get fair consideration in procurement contracts, utilities need to properly value the greater reliability that the technology delivers compared with peaking power plants, AES Energy Storage President Chris Shelton told us last week...

Penn State is guiding a new project that "will serve as a valuable hub for workforce training, building performance testing, energy management research and "smart" microgrid modernization deployments," the university told the press last week...

For energy storage to get fair consideration in procurement contracts, utilities need to properly value the greater reliability that the technology delivers compared with peaking power plants, AES Energy Storage President Chris Shelton told us last week...

There is "significant potential" for the development of wind, wave and tidal renewable resources on the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, the UK's Dept of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) and the Scottish government told the press yesterday...

Federal investments in the smart grid yield above-average returns in GDP compared with other sectors, DOE's Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (OE) told the press last week as it publicized a report on ARRA...

Consumers are interacting on a near-daily basis with OPower's app for Wi-Fi thermostats that gives them control of their home energy use, Roderick Morris, the firm's senior VP for marketing and operations, told us this week at a Deloitte & Touche-sponsored energy conference in Maryland's newest town, National Harbor...

Southern California Edison (SCE) is using SAS to integrate data from a variety of sources and extract crucial insights for decision-making, the software vendor told the press recently...

EnerNOC took part in an OpenADR Alliance test hosted by NIST that demonstrated the interoperability of OpenADR 2.0b capabilities such as the Extensible Messaging & Presence Protocol (XMPP), the Boston-based DR firm told the press yesterday...

The "lengthy, industry-driven process by which grid security standards are set results in long delays and haphazard implementation of the voluntary security recommendations the [power] industry refuses to make mandatory," US Reps Ed Markey, D-Mass, and Henry Waxman, D-Calif, told the press yesterday. They were publicizing a they said drew on talks with over 100 utilities in the US...

Penn State is guiding a new project that "will serve as a valuable hub for workforce training, building performance testing, energy management research and "smart" microgrid modernization deployments," the university told the press last week...

The first international conference on transactive energy is underway at Portland's World Trade Center, Sustainable Business Oregon reported online this week, noting that the event is sponsored by Portland General Electric and the Pacific Northwest National Lab. The event started yesterday and ends today...

Smart metering gets a lot of attention from the utility industry but is not where the money lies, said a free Navigant Research report on industry trends from 2012-2020 that the firm publicized this week...

Southern California Edison (SCE) is using SAS to integrate data from a variety of sources and extract crucial insights for decision-making, the software vendor told the press recently...