Sensus, a provider of clean technology solutions, received the "Best Smart Grid Product or Solution" award at the fourth annual Rural Smart Grid Summit (RSGS). Over 100 rural electric cooperative executives voted to select Sensus for this ...
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The government says its expects all major energy companies to offer smart metering services to all consumers by autumn 2015. The deadline was spelled out in a speech made to the Smart Metering Forum last ?week by Baroness Verma, ...
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In a sign of the growing threat that hackers pose to smart meters and other Internet-connected devices,Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced Tuesday that it will launch a service to help utilities block those attacks. Smart meters give ...
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DecisionPoint Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: DPSI), a leading provider and integrator of Enterprise Mobility, Wireless Applications and RFID solutions, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Landis+Gyr, the ...
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Siemens, in partnership with Green Energy Options (GEO), has launched a solution for the deployment of smart meters in multi-dwellings, also known as multi-dwelling units (MDUs). These buildings, often high-rise, present a challenge for ...
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The big energy suppliers will “save a fortune” because of the way the smart meter rollout has been designed, according to Labour’s Alan Whitehead. The MP, who is also a member of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, ...
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Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart meters in North America in the past decade. Now they have to figure out what to do with all the information the devices are generating. It’s a mind-boggling amount of data. ...
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Since the beginning of 2012, smart grid improvements on Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) system have avoided almost 3.8 million customer outage minutes, according to the utility’s Smart Grid Annual Report. PG&E also says ...
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Landis+Gyr has won a £600m contract for supply of majority of 16 million smart meters British Gas is set to install at its customers’ homes. The smart meters are scheduled to be rolled out as standard to homes and businesses ...
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When we publish articles on smart meters, we inevitably receive?comments from people who are concerned about privacy (what utilities will do with their data),?health issues related to electromagnetic fields,?and whether?the data will be ...
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Germany’s potential rejection of smart meters could pose a threat to $44 billion of smart grid investment, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The report says Germany, usually at the forefront of energy technology ...
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Last week, Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building, has announced an act requiring utilities to install smart meters in all Danish households. In iPower, Consortium of research and innovation in intelligent ...
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Greentech Media has been covering the ins and outs of how utilities and smart grid technology providers are making use of the nation’s massive rollout of smart meters for years now. As the Edison Foundation reported last month, that ...
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The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has selected the Wi-SUN Alliance specification for the wireless protocol between smart meters and home energy management systems (HEMS) for its Wireless B route. TEPCO plans to deploy 27 million smart ...
Sustainability and low energy solutions provider, Inteb, has issued a six-month warning to businesses still currently operating with traditional rather than smart meters. By April 2014, all Profile Class 05-08 electricity meters and all ...
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