Home-area networks (HANs) and the sense of empowerment they can give individuals over their electricty consumption will help drive consumer Smart Grid acceptance. Use this section to stay current on this important topic.
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Tendril is sweetening the pot in its efforts to entice developers to come up with third-party applications for the smart grid and smart home on its cloud-based platform. Click to learn about Tendril's new web site for app developers and its contest featuring $5,000 in prize money.
Utilities around the country will want to keep a close eye on the progress of NV Energy's smart grid project. As a piece of that, the Nevada utility is taking an intriguing approach to encourage customers to enroll in demand response and dynamic pricing. Click inside for more on NV Energy's "big carrot" strategy.
Snow storms, power outages, rate hikes… isn't there a better way? That's what Carl Ford contemplates in his call for a smart grid application for the home that's smarter than anything he's seen so far.
Communications provider Trilliant today announced a new platform and new partnerships aimed at smoothing the path to demand response (DR) and home energy management (HEM). The announcement has a lot to say about the state of HEM today (chaotic). And about how Trilliant differentiates itself from rivals such as Silver Spring Networks. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst has details inside.
As part of a stimulus-funded project, KEMA will help a Montana utility install home energy management gear in 200 homes. Then it will use a variety of outreach methods to convince and coach them. Is this the future of customer engagement?
Why have we embedded sensors, monitors and digital intelligence into virtually every piece of the electricity value chain... except the load panel? SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst is trying to figure that one out. But in the meantime, his latest Discovery Showcase feature introduces an Israeli company that has what looks to be a promising solution. Learn all about it inside.
Austin's innovative Pecan Street Project is bringing the smart grid home … literally. Pecan Street Inc. is teaming with some industry heavyweights to work on a consumer-focused smart grid built around home apps and consumer electronics. It could be just what the smart grid doctor ordered – a way to get consumers excited about smart grid technologies. Click inside and see if you agree.
According to this report from Research and Markets, TechNavio’s analysts forecast the global smart grid home area network market to grow at a CAGR of 18.2% between 2010 and 2014. Developed with input from industry markets, the report also notes that a key factor contributing to this market growth is the increasing installation of smart meters, and that a lack of industry standards could pose a challenge to the market. The report focuses on the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions and includes key vendors in the market.
Buoyed by a successful pilot program, Oklahoma Gas & Electric is moving toward its goals of peak demand reduction and customer adoption with the installation of Energate's smart thermostats in up to 40,000 homes. There's more on the story inside.
A smarter energy cloud hovering over Dubuque, Iowa. Picture frame nostalgia from a London designer. And algorithms that can identify appliance-specific data signatures. Believe it or not, all three are concepts emerging on the home energy management front. Learn more inside.
AT&T and Digi International have teamed up to offer Digi X-Gridâ„¢ Solutions to give home and business owners the information they need to cut power use and costs. Click inside for more on what these solutions can do, and for Jesse Berst's take on what the partnership means for Digi and AT&T.
Jesse Berst got a look at the latest smart grid research from Newton-Evans. The findings may help utilities and vendors alike determine where to place their bets. SCADA and substation automation? A big winner. Smart metering? A loser. Click inside to see other surprising revelations.
Earlier this year Google and Microsoft abandoned the residential energy management space and now Cisco is backing away too. Is it a smart move for the networking giant? SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst has thoughts on that inside.
Blue Line Innovations has partnered with People Power Company to provide electricity consumers an easily installed application that allows them to monitor their energy use and budget for it. But SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst wonders why consumers need to pay for a tool to help them save energy.
Microsoft and Google recently decided to deep six their entries in the crowded home energy management market. So what went wrong? SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst gets right to the point in his take on why these two offerings failed.
Energate's recent pilot projects in Oklahoma and Ontario, Canada, yielded some surprising results for its home energy controls, portals and its two-way communications software solutions for consumers and utilities. Click inside for more and to read what SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst thinks we can learn from successful pilots.
Opower has announced that it is well on its way to meeting a goal of helping U.S. consumers save one terawatt of energy by the end of 2012, an amount equal to taking 100,000 homes off the electric grid for a year. Read the story for more on the home energy management software company's ambitious energy savings goal.
Three new studies paint a promising picture of smart grid growth in the next decade. Click to see what the research gurus predict for the T&D equipment, home energy management and smart meter markets.
The Wi-Fi Alliance is making a concerted push to play a larger role in the smart grid. Jesse Berst is particularly intrigued by a new development called Wi-Fi Direct - a new offering that connects devices directly without the need for a hotspot. We asked earlier this week if Wi-Fi Direct has the chops to be a ZigBee killer. Now Jesse's back with the rest of the story.
Jesse Berst recently warned that Google's home automation plans could impinge on ZigBee's goal to become the planet's standard for home area networking. But there's another threat that's even closer – namely, the new Wi-Fi Direct standard. It allows peer-to-peer networking (no need for a standalone router in the middle). Do you think ZigBee will survive these threats?
A new report says smart grid applications will change our lives, probably in more ways than most of us can fathom. But Jesse Berst takes a dim view of some of the news reporting on the predictions. Read why he thinks it's off the mark.
GTM Research smart grid analyst Chet Geschickter lays out how utilities can take advantage of the residential home energy management market for peak demand curtailment – and he defines the right market conditions that would make it possible.
GTM Research smart grid analyst Chet Geschickter wrote last week about the business case for home energy management. Now, he takes a look at the two standards issues that must be resolved to make that business case a reality.
While many utilities are leery of investing in the home, GTM Research analyst Chet Geschickter has taken a close look into the home energy management market – and what he sees is a lot of potential, along with challenges. Read his summary of the business case for utility investment and how GTM sees the market shaping up.
The PR machines are cranking overtime in San Diego, with a flurry of announcements from smart grid companies about new products and new partnerships. Click inside for today's DistribuTECH roundup.
We're getting mixed signals about the vitality of the smart grid market. On the one hand, the recent DistribuTECH conference was one of the most successful ever. On the other, a well-known Wall Street analyst recently told his clients that the smart metering sector is "facing several headwinds," including weak regulatory support in the U.S. and delays in European adoption. Taking the pulse of the smart grid industry is this week's Tuesday Topic.
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