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Many countries around the globe are working feverishly to modernize their electric grids. Sharing knowledge helps everyone, and the news and resources in this section can help do that.
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Renewable energy technologies, supported by government stimulus programs and other incentives, have sweetened the global economic outlook, and six clean technologies are expected to experience double digit growth in five years, according to SBI Energy. |
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It hasn't been cheap or easy, but Portugal has made incredible strides toward a green energy future: Almost 45% of the country's power will be from renewable energy sources this year, quite a jump from 17% five years ago. |
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The newly formed Global Smart Grid Federation plans to link Smart Grid organizations around the world to encourage sharing of ideas and best practices to help accelerate Smart Grid deployments. |
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ABB enters the record books with the completion of the first ultrahigh-voltage direct current transmission line to operate commercially. The line, located in southeastern China, spans 1,240 miles between Xiangjiaba and Shanghai, making it the longest and most powerful transmission link in the world. |
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A new forecast says global Smart Grid spending will come close to $46 billion in five years, with the vast majority, close to $41 billion, to be invested in transmission and distribution infrastructure. |
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Concerns that a shortage of the rare earth metals essential to many Smart Grid technologies like the magnets in wind turbines and hybrid cars may become reality sooner than expected. A PBS News Hour report notes that China, provider of almost all of the world's rare earth supplies, may decide to keep its rare earth resources for its own use leaving the rest of the world without. |
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From Boise, Idaho to the Hammarby Sjöstad district near Stockholm, cities are demonstrating the many and varied ways that energy can be harvested locally – and also figuring out how to wring the most out of every bit of energy produced. |
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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently facilitated a smart grid demonstration meeting in Europe that was also jointly coordinated with the First International Workshop for ADDRESS, a group of European distribution companies focused on demand response and distributed energy resources. Both meetings were hosted by French utility Electricité de France (EDF) in Paris (Clamart), France in early June 2010.
The EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration meeting provided the opportunity to focus on international activities that are related to integrating Distributed Energy Resources along with giving an overall EPRI smart grid demonstration project update (available here via download) and path forward through 2013. Presentations included an overview of German smart grid projects, four European scenarios for ADDRESS applications, EDF smart grid activities related to ADDRESS along with sharing of two projects from the United States: 1) AEP – Modeling and Simulation of Community Energy Storage, 2) Southern Company Smart Grid Demonstration Projects. Click the EPRI source link below to access these presentations. |
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Australia's first Smart Grid demonstration project has gotten the go-ahead. The $82.2 million project will begin later this year and continue until 2013 in Newcastle and parts of Sydney. |
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Newcastle will be the site of Australia‟s first commercial-scale smart grid, in a project that will help Australians to save energy, connect renewable energy to the grid and to tackle climate change. |
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The Areva group closed the sale of its transmission and distribution businesses to Alstom and Schneider Electric. Alstom will take over the transmission business and Schneider will take on distribution. |
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A survey of British citizens claims that, even if they had a smart meter, seven out of 10 would ignore the potentially money-saving information the meters can provide. |
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IBM and energy consultant Hildebrand are joining forces to enable large-scale home energy monitoring for three million or more homes in the UK. The project integrates IBM's Informix database into Hildebrand's monitoring system. |
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U.S. lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel and longtime partner ITOCHU Corp. unveiled what is said to be the first Smart Grid project to integrate EVs, stationary grid storage, solar power and rapid recharging in a real-world environment. |
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A German man is being investigated by police after an electric utility employee conducting a routine power line check discovered a meat hook on the line attached to a cable leading to the man's house. |
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Smart Grid solutions provider CURRENT Group has been selected by Iberdrola, a leading wind power producer and the world's fourth largest utility, to provide what it says is the first and largest deployment of smart metering technologies that will incorporate end-to-end interoperability using the open PRIME metering standard. |
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AREVA's T&D division and a Dutch consortium partner have won an order of almost $83 million to supply and install an offshore high voltage substation for a German offshore wind farm. |
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A Canadian power distribution company took delivery of its first all-electric commercial fleet vehicle for use in a Smart Grid demonstration project that will study how well an all-EV commercial fleet will workin the real world. |
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A new research report says over 96 million European households will have smart meters installed by 2014. The intelligent meters are now mandatory in some European countries. |
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We've seen announcements from all the major automakers touting the EVs they'll be rolling out. And we know about the billions of dollars that governments around the world are investing in Smart Grid technologies. If it makes you wonder how big those markets really are, Lux Research senior analyst Jacob Grose is here with some findings that may surprise you. |
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GE's Smart Grid technologies are helping a German town take an innovative and holistic approach to energy efficiency while reducing its carbon footprint. The town of Erding and other German communities like it are using GE's smart meters to monitor all utility services used, not just electricity. |
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Understanding the ultimate source of a cyber attack – or the mindset of the attacker – is more like reading tea leaves than a biography. At least that’s why Jack Danahy says his focus is always on the vulnerability or the damage and what we can learn from it. Question is, should we interpret a report out of China on how to cause a cascading failure of the U.S. power grid the same way? Jack has some thoughts on that. See if you agree. |
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The controversy and hot tempers over smart meter rollouts in the U.S. are popping up in Australia too. Some utility customers in Victoria have gone so far as to padlock their electric meters to block installation of the new meters. |
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EPRESA, a Spanish power distribution company, needed a highly reliable backbone network that can be used for multiple applications including Smart Grid, smart metering, distribution automation, SCADA, video surveillance, customer Internet access and VoIP. This case study explains how the company worked with RuggedCom to achieve that. |
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Indianapolis-based lithium-ion battery manufacturer EnerDel will join forces again with the real estate division of ITOCHU Corporation, a giant Japanese industrial trading company, to develop and make advanced battery systems for a residential Smart Grid storage project near Tokyo. |
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