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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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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The availability of energy usage data and the creation of software platforms with data analytics have recently given way to new forms of analytical demand-side management (DSM). Behavioral and analytical DSM, which focus on consumer ...
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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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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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The United Kingdom's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has set the goal of installing 53 million smart meters in 30 million homes over the next eight years. The department claims the national roll out will save the country ...
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Photo: Xinhua/eyevine/Redux As smart meter installations wane in the United States, China has become the new leader in smart grid spending. China spent US $4.3 billion on smart grid investments in 2013 as the U.S. market contracted 33 ...
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Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf—or one of many other new models—shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in electric cars in 2013. That's a tiny slice of the auto market, but it's up ...
With all the buzz around the Internet of Things,it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the electricity grid already operates with millions of connected meters and sensors.Yet writing applications for these programmable machines is too ...
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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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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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