American Electric Power wants to add “smart meters” to 900,000 houses and businesses in Ohio, up from 110,000 that were part of a test project that included parts of central Ohio. The Columbus-based utility is asking ...
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Kent County residents may want to pay attention to a particular piece of "junk mail" in the coming weeks as Consumers Energy gears up to begin installing so-called smart meters in homes and small businesses of some 270,500 customers here. ...
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Today, for the most part, utilities are recording and storing data from Smart Meters at levels of resolution that are needed for billing, typically at 15 minute, half-hour or hourly intervals. Higher resolution data can provide much more ...
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Leviton announced today the expansion of its revenue-grade line of VerifEye™ submetering solutions with the launch of its line of Series 8000 Multi-Point Meters. Featuring universal voltage capabilities, the compactly-engineered ...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity drive will create a market worth up to $8.9 trillion by 2020, according to analyst IDC. IoT covers anything from smart meters and machine-to-machine telematics to internet-enabled fridges and ...
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Ireland's smart electricity grid with smart meters in every home will only be possible through consumer participation and backed by the feed of real-time energy information back to the cloud for analysis, UCD-based Energy Research Ireland ...
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The modern world is increasingly reliant on data – internet usage is tracked and recorded, phone calls are logged and billed – but what about the raw enabling product itself: electricity? Although most of the world's ...
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ALMOST two in three electricity smart meters installed in some parts of Victoria are not fully working as the deadline for the contentious rollout looms. About 350,000 devices fitted in SP AusNet's region are yet to go "live" with remote ...
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Sensus, a leading utility infrastructure company, has been selected to provide the core communications technology to support one of the world's largest smart metering projects—the UK government's plan to put smart meters in millions ...
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The global installed base of smart meters for distribution automation applications will grow from fewer than 10 million in 2013 to 143.2 million by 2020, according to new research. The study from Navigant Research says that "utilities are ...
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A business strategy cannot succeed unless the data supporting the strategy is fit for purpose. That's the view of Jon Stangroom, information governance manager at utility company British Gas. Further reading SAS brings a brighter ...
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With support from the Province of Ontario, Ryerson University's Centre for Urban Energy will build a smart grid laboratory, which will serve as a hub for researchers and will provide a collaborative facility for testing and demonstrating ...
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The government has stepped up the process of equipping every home in the UK with smart energy meters by selecting the vendors to provide the kit, the data service and wide area communications, in addition to a smart meter governing ...
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GE, Silver Spring Networks, and ComEd have embarked on a new smart grid initiative that is expected to bring millions of dollars of investment to Chicago. GE will manufacture smart meters at a plant on the city’s south side. ...
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Recently UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey announced the rollout of smart meters was to be delayed by a year. Pushing back the start is a smart move by the government as the delay looks to ensure that the functionality of the meters will be fit ...