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Michael Ashley finds meaning in summer internship at savvy utility
January 23, 2012
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: For Michael Ashley, numbers, formulas and variables made little sense sitting on a sheet of loose-leaf paper or trapped inside a calculator. The Hartford (Conn) Academy of Engineering and Green Technology high-school student knew . . . keep reading
EPRI exec: Asset owners balking at NERC CIP's quick-change act
January 20, 2012
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Rapid changes to NERC's critical infrastructure protection (CIP) standards are inhibiting owners of grid equipment from investing in communications gear that could . . . keep reading
Some utilities favoring less AMI info to customers
January 20, 2012
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Most utilities are giving less information than before to customers while implementing AMI, experts said Tuesday at the IEEE Power and Energy Society . . . keep reading
Nonprofit rips Pennsylvania TOU program before PUC
January 20, 2012
Blame belongs to Pennsylvania Power & Light (PPL) Electric for its failed TOU program, the Allentown, Penn-based nonprofit Sustainable . . . keep reading
Global survey of utility officials points to big gap in AMI planning
January 11, 2012
Nearly half of utilities around the globe have no AMI plans or are undecided about which technology -- power line carrier (PLC) or . . . keep reading
Growing Energy Labs banking on value of keeping power, data local
January 10, 2012
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Growing Energy Labs, a 23-month-old San Francisco start-up, plans to have experimental versions of its flagship product, the Energy Computer, up and running in Europe . . . keep reading
Repetition becoming key theme as technology conferences mushroom
January 4, 2012
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Same speakers. Same people. Same information. Same events. Utilities and vendors, both dealing with restrained travel allotments, are beginning to dread registering for . . . keep reading
Utilities, in survey, express greater interest in smart grid spending
December 21, 2011
Despite pressures from a bad economy, utilities showed marginally more interest in grid-modernization spending this year than . . . keep reading
'End-to-end interoperability,' suites of software go under microscope
December 9, 2011
GRID-INTEROP: Among the hits of the Plug-In interoperability trials at Grid-Interop this week were Wednesday's "green button" demos, Erich Gunther, administrator of the Smart Grid . . . keep reading
Privacy prominent in criticism of White House cybersecurity plan
November 2, 2011
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: The White House cybersecurity plan the Obama administration pushed in recent months leaves several critical elements unaddressed, cybersecurity experts Greg Nojeim, Paul Rosenzweig and Jay Wack told us yesterday in exclusive . . . keep reading
At conference, Beacon CEO urges quick implementation of FERC rule
November 2, 2011
Says 'Hurricane Solyndra' made normal business impossible at DOE: Competitive markets lead to innovation in the power sector, but that innovation does not always come without bumps in the road, as evidenced by a panel at the ISO Energy Conference in New . . . keep reading
Expert predicts financial woes like Beacon's for other US loan takers
November 1, 2011
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW -- Says rigid metrics schedule, tied-up assets are problems: The terms of DOE's loan-guarantee program are so restrictive that "almost assuredly" others among the 37 firms receiving guarantees and loans from Uncle Sam to date will face . . . keep reading
Munis, schools may test LEED-like system for power providers
October 24, 2011
5 entities show interest in PPI's rating system: An offshoot of the Galvin Electricity Initiative has generated interest among several munis and universities to test a LEED-like certification . . . keep reading
DOE lauded for some coordination plans in new review
October 3, 2011
In its inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR) publicized last week, US DOE outlined three grid modernization priorities in the report: activities that enable monitoring and control of transmission, storage and distribution of power; technologies that . . . keep reading
In 'landmark' DA project for EDF, BPL Global sees demo for EU
September 8, 2011
A €30.2 million (US$42.5 million) consortium-led project on three widely separated French islands could serve smart grid technology firm BPL Global as a demo and an opportunity to garner more European business, CEO Pete Londa told us yesterday in an interview from . . . keep reading
Cyber security experts question NERC's approach to standards
September 7, 2011
EXCLUSIVE NEWS -- Regulatory entity: CIP guidelines will evolve into 'good foundation' for 'baseline controls': Developing standards for cyber security regulation should be an open and competitive process for any interested organization, Michael Assante, CEO of National Board of Information Security . . . keep reading
Greenlet, Efficiency 2.0 work on broad DR pilot in Illinois
August 31, 2011
EXCLUSIVE NEWS -- Consumer advocacy group has role in power control: DR firm Greenlet Technologies and software and program administration firm Efficiency 2.0 partnered with Citizens Utility . . . keep reading
SEGIS winner works to break down barriers to distributed solar
August 30, 2011
SOLAR CONNECTION -- Fourth in an occasional series: Utilities in the US have 300 million sites for solar installation -- atop their power poles -- but until Petra Solar, of South Plainfield . . . keep reading
Bluebonnet Electric preparing for AMI, with EMeter's help
August 17, 2011
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative lost its SGIG bid, and while that nixed its plan to deploy smart meters with dispatch, it did not stop the central Texas cooperative from aggressively preparing for . . . keep reading
BC Hydro employs novel strategies in 1.8-million meter project
August 10, 2011
BC Hydro, under a mandate from the British Columbia government to replace 1.8 million electromechanical meters with smart meters by . . . keep reading
Wellinghoff, other dignitaries explain the developing DR landscape
July 14, 2011
Demand response and the smart grid have finally reached a "critical mass" -- to where they are moving beyond a niche product to the . . . keep reading
Despite lots of smart meters, ERCOT holds challenges for DR, TOU
July 14, 2011
The Texas PUC has a smart meter program for every wires utility in ERCOT but unlike other jurisdictions, it has no say in how they are . . . keep reading
DR group honors three for advancing the cause
July 12, 2011
Two individuals and a group are slated to win leadership awards today from the Assn for DR & Smart Grid (ADS), that organization . . . keep reading
ComEd trying to breathe life into moribund $3b smart grid bill
July 8, 2011
IOU Commonwealth Edison is busy trying to emphasize the positive aspects of a 12-month smart grid pilot ended in May, in hopes of pushing through a state law that would let it implement $3 billion . . . keep reading
Group of groups lays out DR communications schemes
July 8, 2011
"Tell the story from the customers' perspectives," the National Action Plan Coalition, a group of more than a dozen energy-industry organizations, urged yesterday as it publicized a free 29-page . . . keep reading
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