Itron installed a combination of 25,000 smart meters for water, gas and heat; communications modules, and wireless fixed networks in the Northern Chinese city of Tianjin, the utility technology supplier told the press recently...

The Illinois performance metrics that Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) proposed recently in its 2013 smart grid progress report to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) are "a significant advancement from those envisioned by the legislature when it encouraged Illinois IOUs to invest in their grids through Senate Bill 1652...

Smart grid tech to hit $73 billion by 2020 ...

Di-Boss, a digital-building operating system Selex ES is about to bring to market, integrates multiple building management systems "into one, easy-to-use, cockpit-style control interface," the vendor told the press this week...

Mainstream Renewable Power is set to work with the emerging market investor Actis to build and run 600 MWs of wind and solar projects in Chile by early 2016, the wind and solar developer told the press last week...

MetricStream and Corporate Risk Solutions Inc (CRSI), agreed to provide joint consulting to help utilities and energy firms comply with NERC standards, the pair told the press yesterday...

Honeywell is selling a new Wi-Fi thermostat for the home that uses automated DR, the firm told the press this week...

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...

MetricStream and Corporate Risk Solutions Inc (CRSI), agreed to provide joint consulting to help utilities and energy firms comply with NERC standards, the pair told the press yesterday...

With severe storms more frequently battering the North American East and Gulf Coasts, the outage management system is a natural fit for that market, he noted...

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 upgraded its network operations center (NOC), more than tripling its size and adding a custom-built application layer in its new headquarters in Boston's innovation district, Micah Remley, VP of product strategy and technology at the DR firm, told us last week...

The US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) gave a grant to Kazakhstani power distribution firm Alatau Zharyk to study the feasibility of doing a DA project in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, the agency told the press last month...

Itron installed a combination of 25,000 smart meters for water, gas and heat; communications modules, and wireless fixed networks in the Northern Chinese city of Tianjin, the utility technology supplier told the press recently...

A bill unanimously passed by the Texas legislature would help state facilities make better use of combined heat and power (CHP) to keep the power on in an emergency, Debrah Dubay, a spokesperson for the Texas CHP Initiative told us yesterday...

The US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) gave a grant to Kazakhstani power distribution firm Alatau Zharyk to study the feasibility of doing a DA project in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, the agency told the press last month...

Smart grid technology "empowers customers to participate in the market through demand response" and DR will help utilities in Southern California meet demand, Cal-ISO CEO Steve Berberich said in a conference call with reporters Friday as Southern California Edison (SCE) announced its decision to permanently close the San Onofre nuclear power plant...

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...

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...

Retroficiency is doing an building-energy-management pilot with Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P), the vendor told the press today, using incremental energy-use data...

Ontario, Canada-based utility Hydro One Networks chose Ambient Devices' energy management gear for a pilot project with select customers, the pair told the press this week...

EPRI developed new software that quantifies the value of energy storage and assesses its cost-effectiveness for firms, the research institute told the press yesterday...

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...

GridCom, an 8-month old firm based in San Diego, Calif, is working to secure machine-to-machine (M2M) communications on the power grid using quantum encryption...

A state-owned Saudi Arabian firm signed an MOU with investment bank ICT Europe and Italian power distributor Enel to carry out smart grid projects in Saudi Arabia and five neighboring countries, the trio told the press this week...

The US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) gave a grant to Kazakhstani power distribution firm Alatau Zharyk to study the feasibility of doing a DA project in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, the agency told the press last month...

HomeGrid Forum and the HomePNA Alliance merged to create one organization "focused on promoting advanced wired home networking technologies," the pair told the press yesterday...

A new smart grid partnership between Alstom Grid and Intel will let the latter firm deliver its IT products to the utility industry much faster, Kevin O'Donovan, worldwide director of energy sector sales at Intel, told us last week...

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

The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) should be completely restructured because the utility was so slow to restore power after Hurricane Sandy struck last fall, Rep Peter King, R-NY, told a NEMA-sponsored event yesterday in Washington, DC...

DR handles only 3-4% of system peak in ERCOT but could easily handle 8-15%, EnerNOC President David Brewster told us last week...

Bryan Hannegan is set to join DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Monday as associate laboratory director for "energy systems integration," an R&D area that addresses challenges of integrating clean energy sources into energy infrastructure around the US, NREL told the press this week...

A bill unanimously passed by the Texas legislature would help state facilities make better use of combined heat and power (CHP) to keep the power on in an emergency, Debrah Dubay, a spokesperson for the Texas CHP Initiative told us yesterday...

IEEE published a handful of research materials aimed at encouraging innovation in the global smart grid industry, the institute told the press yesterday...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, I (independent), yesterday laid out no fewer than 250 steps the city can take to better prepare for climate change, including ones that strengthen the power grid...

AT&T is offering prepaid applications that help manage energy use and cut costs, the firm told the press yesterday, asserting that the move equates to "expanding its leadership in smart grid." The telecom giant penned an exclusive pact with PayGo...

Hastings, New Zealand-based Unison Networks began deploying Silver Spring Network's DA mesh radios in its service area, the network operator told the press last week...

With severe storms more frequently battering the North American East and Gulf Coasts, the outage management system is a natural fit for that market, he noted...

Harris Utilities has a new pre-paid metering program it said saves customers money by letting them pay "on-demand" rather than up front for utility services, it told the press this week...

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...

FERC yesterday granted NERC's request to push back the effective date of the definition of the "bulk electric system" (BES) and the rules-of-procedure exception process from July 1 of this year to July 1 of next year...

With severe storms more frequently battering the North American East and Gulf Coasts, the outage management system is a natural fit for that market, he noted...

Bryan Hannegan is set to join DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Monday as associate laboratory director for "energy systems integration," an R&D area that addresses challenges of integrating clean energy sources into energy infrastructure around the US, NREL told the press this 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...

EPRI developed new software that quantifies the value of energy storage and assesses its cost-effectiveness for firms, the research institute 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...

Ontario, Canada-based utility Hydro One Networks chose Ambient Devices' energy management gear for a pilot project with select customers, the pair told the press this week...

EPRI developed new software that quantifies the value of energy storage and assesses its cost-effectiveness for firms, the research institute told the press yesterday...

MetricStream and Corporate Risk Solutions Inc (CRSI), agreed to provide joint consulting to help utilities and energy firms comply with NERC standards, the pair told the press yesterday...

HomeGrid Forum and the HomePNA Alliance merged to create one organization "focused on promoting advanced wired home networking technologies," the pair 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...

Transactive energy (TE) -- the use of economic signals to coordinate devices throughout the power grid -- has gained prominence in the utility industry in recent months as the glue that can hold the smart grid together, Ron Ambrosio, IBM's CTO for smart energy research, told us last week...

FERC yesterday granted NERC's request to push back the effective date of the definition of the "bulk electric system" (BES) and the rules-of-procedure exception process from July 1 of this year to July 1 of next year...

Utilities need to account for the societal costs of power outages, not just their own restoration costs, for their investments in grid resiliency to be enough to cope with another storm on the scale of Hurricane Sandy, GridWise Alliance CEO Becky Harrison told us yesterday...

Wi-SUN Alliance members such as Cisco and Silver Spring Networks demonstrated the interoperability of products that met the alliance's field-area network (FAN) specification, Wi-SUN told the press yesterday...