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With meter upgrades, Pepco slowed only by 'hard-to-access installations'

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Pepco and its AMI contractor, Scope Services, have installed a total of 261,800 smart meters by December -- 10,449 of them in December

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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

UK center to give innovators $48 million ... Virtual net metering moves forward in Connecticut ... Hawaiian Electric starting DR pilot ... Enbala picks Tom Brady as its board chairman ... GE unit offering APIs to developers

Amid fireworks, California PUC OKs smart meter opt-out provisions

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

1 consumer makes reference to recent cruise ship disaster: In a meeting marked by high emotions, California's PUC yesterday implemented its first smart meter opt-out provisions -- after hearing hours of consumers' concerns over AMI's health and privacy

Cyber security experts: problems with SGIG program manageable

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Cyber security flaws revealed in US DOE's recent office of inspector general (IG) report on the 99 Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) winners are relatively minimal, cyber security experts told us this week in exclusive interviews

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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Siemens opens plant in Goa, India . . . UK chooses not to force smart meter adoption

NEMA adopting much broader view of its role in testing, certification

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has changed direction, taking on the lofty goal of standardizing interoperability testing and certification rather than simply testing interoperability interoperability for its

PG&E's CAES project so far adds less than a dozen of 500 expected jobs

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

A PG&E compressed-air energy storage (CAES) project supported by a $24.9 million DOE Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) so far has generated about 11 jobs out of the roughly 500 the utility said it would

Maryland regulators set to work on incentive levels for efficiency labels

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Maryland IOUs and the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) must work together to establish "uniform incentive levels" for energy efficient labels, such as Energy Star CFLs and commercial Energy

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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Dubai-based firm buys winner of DOE grant . . . Appellate court to review ballot decision in Illinois

SGIP focusing outreach intently on staffers at regulatory bodies

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: NIST and the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) will attempt to institutionalize smart grid efforts by enhancing outreach to state regulatory staff

RuggedCom says yes to $439 million offer from Siemens

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

RuggedCom yesterday agreed to be bought by Siemens for US$33/share, or US$439 million, defeating a purchase effort by Belden

PECO tells plan for picking suppliers for dynamic pricing program

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PECO will select generation suppliers for its dynamic pricing program by March 1, according to documents the utility filed

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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Texas Instruments' CC2538 system on a chip supports 802.15.4

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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

ABB sets purchase of Thomas & Betts . . . Consumers group presses for SDG&E opt-out ruling . . . Chopra leaving Obama administration post . . . SAIC working on upgrades in 4 Alaskan villages . . . Burns & McDonnell expands laboratory . . . Microgrids lacking full support around world

Anti-smart meter group's claims have 'no legal merit,' Illinois city says

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The city of Naperville, Ill, recruited volunteers "to work against the citizen effort to put a public question before the voters" and used other questionable tactics, an anti-smart meter group

Some with global view of cleaner transportation see EVs as limited

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

EVs got cool treatment from a panel of climate change activists that gathered Thursday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, to discuss a forthcoming World Bank report on

Obama appoints Tony Clark to FERC, Sieminski to head EIA

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

President Barack Obama made two key energy related appointments last week, picking Tony Clark to fill the empty FERC seat and naming Adam Sieminski as the new head of the EIA. Clark, a Republican, has been

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

GridWise council adds 2 members . . . Oracle offering variety of data-analysis software . . . Enspiria absorbed into Black & Veatch . . . Tantalus begins selling Itron meter combination . . . CalAmp hawking new router

Idaho Falls Power decries 'bait-and- switch' by beleaguered Ener1

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Battery-maker Ener1 alienated one of its few utility customers while working toward the bankruptcy restructuring agreement it reached yesterday, the utility told us

YEAGER: Audit of SGIG program predictably negative

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS -- EMeter executive, however, sees 'no smoking gun': It was "predictable" the DOE's inspector general would slam the $3.5 billion Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG)

Clash over anti-AMI ballot measure continues in Illinois town

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

A local judge on Tuesday agreed that a proposal to halt AMI in Naperville, Ill, should be kept off the spring ballot, the Naperville Sun reported this week. The decision by a DuPage

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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

OpenADR, Z-Wave make pact . . . New Itron software uses IBM, SAP technology . . . Energate selling new product for DR pilots . . . Comverge pushes digital control unit . . . New Digi product focuses squarely on cost . . . Cooper Power selling 5th version of product . . . Alcatel-Lucent hawks communication software

Cyber security worries, poor business practices cited in audit of SGIGs

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

DOE agrees to review method of monitoring the program -- Serious problems exist in how some of the 99 DOE Smart Grid Investment Grants (SGIGs) recipients are using their money, according to a free report DOE's office of inspector general finalized this month

US Congress members spar over usefulness of ARPA-E

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The partisan battle on clean energy subsidies hit Capitol Hill again Tuesday as Republicans and Democrats sparred over the legitimacy of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) during a US House committee on science, space and technology subcommittee on

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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Central Maine Power goes with RuggedCom . . . Maryland extends comments on Constellation merger . . . Constellation Energy partners with PureSense Environmental . . . EnerNOC hosts event to test OpenADR 2.0

FARUQUI: Meter issues took toll on plans touting customer benefits