Scottish Power is trialling 5,000 smart electricity meters in homes as part of a test that will simulate the national smart meter roll-out by covering both heavily populated and rural areas. The 18-month trial will see smart meters ...
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4K TV, otherwise known as Ultra HD, is becoming increasingly popular, and looks set to become even bigger in 2017 as prices come down and more consumers start to upgrade their sets. But British Gas has a word of warning for all those ...
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The Taiwan government, in line with energy saving and reduction in carbon emission policies, aims to install 200,000 low-voltage (110V) smart power meters in 2017, one million units in 2020 and three million units in 2024, according to the ...
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The Provincial Electricity Authority or PEA, in collaboration with Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau or TCEB and N.C.C. Exhibition Organizer Co., Ltd. or NEO, hosted PEA presents EcoLightTech Asia 2015, international trade show for ...
There will be 7.5 million smart meters installed in Japan, including replacement of conventional electric meters, in 2015, hiking 104.9% on year, according to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and industry (METI). Japan will liberalize ...
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VantagePoint gives public service providers more control than ever before, with a lighting solution and module that fits into standard socket fixtures. The module identifies the type of light (legacy or LED) and adjusts to accommodate ...
Dubai's first electric vehicle charging station has been introduced at Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (DEWA’s) main office. Dubai Supreme Council of Energy Chairman HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum inaugurated the ...
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Avantha Group Company CG (Crompton Greaves) will be opening a new facility at Grenoble in France to produce, test and calibrate over 2 million ZIV smart meters per year. CG has chosen Grenoble to open this new facility, so as to cover the ...
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Smart meter is fundamentally equipped in smart grid. The advancing smart grid construction in China spurred the constant growth of smart meter demand. By the end of 2013, 370 million smart meters had been accumulatively installed in China, ...
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Hi-Tech Engineering Industry under Metal & Engineering Corporation (MetEC) has started supplying the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) with locally manufactured smart electric meters, called It-Plus. The meters are centrally controlled to ...
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British telecommunications company Vodafone has signed an agreement to acquire the Italy-based automotive technology provider Cobra Automotive Technologies for EUR145m. The move is part of part of the telecommunications company's plans to ...
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GE's digital energy business' smart meters have achieved Underwriters Laboratories (UL) voluntary safety certification, the first meters in the industry to do so. Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) is deploying GE's UL-certified smart meters as ...
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Utilities across Europe face the prospect of meeting the EU's goal of installing smart meters for 80% of consumers by 2020 with national plans for meeting this target varying considerably across the continent as Italy and Sweden having ...
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FirstEnergy has selected Accenture to manage the roll-out of smart meters to its customers across its four Pennsylvania-based utilities, including Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power and West Penn Power. Signed after approval from the ...
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Power utilities around the world are rolling out smart meters in order to enable automated meter reading and optimized energy management. The X2 capacitors from the EPCOS B3293* heavy duty series of film capacitors are well suited for these ...
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