December 22, 2012 - Alstom Grid says it has completed its acquisition of ASAT Solutions Inc., a Calgary, Alta.-based based substation automation solutions provider. “This acquisition is a great opportunity for Alstom Grid to help ...
Tags: automation solutions, ASAT Solutions, ASAT business, smart grid
Computerworld - Security consulting firm SecureState today released a new open source hacking tool that it claims will let security researchers and penetration testers verify the security of electric utility smart meters being installed in ...
Tags: SecureState, Termineter, OptiGuard, Spencer McIntyre
HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
Tags: power semiconductor technology, Energy, electrical power grid
Paradox Engineering SA and Streetlight.Vision will have agreed to develop new Smart City solutions with Smart Streetlight management. These solutions will use the 'internet of thing' approach to enable municipalities to monitor all objects ...
Tags: Lighting Management, Lighting, Lighting industry, street lighting
Taipei, Dec. 18, 2012 (CENS)--Thanks to a new energy-transfer concept that may be achieved by the development of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market, investment in vehicle-to-building (V2B) infrastructure by battery makers, building ...
Tags: energy-transfer concept, plug-in electric vehicle, vehicle-to-building
Our smart energy roundtable participants discuss evolutions that include the move to the cloud,communications standards,security(always a hot topic)and new technologies to watch. According to IMS Research,over 25 million smart ...
Tags: smart energy, cloud, communications standards, security
With the gradual phase out incandescent lamps, LED lighting will replace incandescent light source is a major trend in the future. As the Second World Conference is an important feature of low-carbon activities, the provincial government ...
Tags: LED industry
December 12, 2012 - IEEE announced updates to four wireless communications technologies in the 802 family of standards, as well as a new 802 standards-development project. The new standards support the global utility industry’s needs ...
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December 12, 2012 - IEEE formed a new technical advisory group—802.24 Smart Grid—to serve as a collaborative umbrella organization that works with multiple IEEE 802 working groups (WGs) and will liaise with smart grid ecosystem ...
Tags: smart grid, technical advisory, smart grid applications
HexaTech Inc of Morrisville,NC,USA has reported the results of an ongoing collaboration with development partner Tokuyama Corp of Tokyo,Japan that has demonstrated UV-C LEDs with exceptional output power and improvements in internal quantum ...
As of December 1, 2012, Telvent is now officially known as Schneider Electric, concluding a year-long brand integration process after Schneider acquired Telvent in 2011. According to Schneider, the integration of Telvent’s weather ...
The latest World Bank's report calls governments for urgent measures to stop global warming. It recommends them to put more than US$ 1 trillion, which are now used as a subsidy for fossil fuel, for better use – in sustainable and ...
Tags: sustainable development, global warming, South-East Europe
In yesterday's piece on Empowered"digital natives"becoming a force to reckon with we highlighted industry insiders'perspectives on how(and why)we need to get consumers excited about the benefits they can reap from a smart grid. Most ...
Tags: digital natives, smart grid, consumers
Hawaii has seen an ever larger increase in solar electricity production from solar farms and residents. Hawaii electricity comes from its imports of diesel, low sulfur fuel oil (LSFO), and naphtha, but with government incentives, increased ...
Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power informed the Lok Sabha that Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd has taken the initiative to implement several Smart Grid pilot projects in the transmission sector. ...