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Smart meter initiatives around the country in recent years have proven the concept. They are cost-effective and maximize energy efficiency, leading many governments to mandate advanced metering. Today a small fraction of U.S. meters are smart, but the segment is expected to grow between 15 percent and 20 percent annually. This section will keep you up-to-date with the fast-evolving technologies that underlie the smart metering phenomenon.
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The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission denied a request by the state's largest utility to expand a smart meter test program. This latest bump in the Smart Grid road came when regulators determined that ratepayers, who would foot the bill for the expansion, wouldn't see the benefits. |
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Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the City of Santa Clara’s municipal electric utility, announced today the selection of Elster Solutions to provide smart meters over the next three years for the SVP Meter Connect program, starting with large business customers in 2011. |
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With the addition of a seventh Massachusetts municipal electric company to its list of clients, GroundedPower is conducting pilot programs in all electric metering environments, including legacy and AMR and AMI smart meters. |
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Integrated Device Technology, Inc. a leading provider of essential mixed signal semiconductor solutions that enrich the digital media experience, today announced its entry into the smart grid industry with its first family of metering ICs for smart meters. The new IDT solutions feature the widest dynamic range in the industry as well as extremely high accuracy, helping improve the performance of smart meters. |
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Southern California Edison achieved a milestone Monday with the installation of its one millionth smart meter. |
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A week after the Maryland Public Service Commission turned down to Baltimore Gas & Electric’s ambitious Smart Grid initiative, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission gave a thumbs up to Oklahoma Gas & Electric’s $366.4 million smart meter expansion. Both utilities’ initiatives were to be funded in part by federal stimulus money. |
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The Maryland Public Service Commission’s decision to turn down Baltimore Gas & Electric’s stimulus-funded smart meter proposal sent shockwaves through the industry. In this guest commentary, eMeter Chief Regulatory Officer Chris King offers perspective on the PSC decision – and suggestions for utilities hoping to avoid a similar fate. |
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GridWise Alliance President Katherine Hamilton reacts to the Maryland Public Service Commission's decision to turn down Baltimore GAs & Electric's Smart Grid proposal. |
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The Maryland Public Service Commission has rejected Baltimore Gas & Electric's Smart Grid metering proposal that has ratepayers taking on most of the initial costs of the project. BG&E President Kenneth DeFontes was quoted in the Baltimore Sun as saying he was "dumbfounded" by the decision. |
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Itron has been selected to deliver an advanced metering system, including head-end and meter data management software and 100,000 smart meters, for the first phase of an ambitious Smart Grid project by Iberdrola, Spain's number one energy group. The initiative could grow to 10 million meters countrywide. |
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Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced it is implementing a smart metering network for the City of Duncan, Okla., that will allow the municipality to automatically collect electricity and water usage data from residents and local businesses. The smart grid deployment is part of a broader energy-efficiency and public-safety program funded by a 15-year, $14.2-million energy savings performance contract and backed in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The program will help the city improve meter accuracy, reduce its energy and operating costs, and enhance public safety services. |
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Siemens IT Solutions and Services and Landis+Gyr are presenting their joint, fully-integrated, end-to-end smart metering solution for the first time on June 15 and 16, 2010, at the EMEA Conference SAP for Utilities 2010 in Brussels. It combines the best of both worlds: The IT provider’s smart meter Integration and Enablement (SMIE®) solution coupled with the infrastructure and the Gridstream meter data system of one of the leading providers of integrated energy management solutions. |
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Many Smart Grid experts believe too many stimulus dollars went to smart meters. They argue it would have been smarter to spend more on distribution automation and system efficiencies. Here's an opposing viewpoint from longtime industry participant Sunil Sharan. |
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The country's sixth largest electricity transmission and distribution utility, Dallas-based Oncor, has signed on with an IBM-led coalition dedicated to promote the adoption of Smart Grids. The Texas utility celebrated a major milestone last week: installation of its one millionth smart meter. |
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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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Mr. Daniel Jammer, the CEO of Nation-E AG, joins forces with Powercom to create a leader in smart meter technology - NationPower. NationPower´s expertise in smart meters and Nation-E´s superior storage systems solutions offer customers the world´s first one-stop solution in vertical energy management systems. |
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Landis+Gyr has signed a contract with RSA to boost security in its GridstreamTM Smart Grid network. The move provides strong data protection to help minimize the effects of possible attacks on the Smart Grid infrastructure. |
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They’re calling it the largest residential smart meter deployment using public wireless networks so far in the U.S. Texas-New Mexico Power will use SmartSynch’s metering solution and AT&T’s public wireless network when it rolls out 231,000 units over the next five years. |
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SmartSynch, Inc., a smart grid technology company utilizing standard IP communications via public wireless networks, announced today that Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP) has selected SmartSynch’s Residential SmartMeter™ solution for a 231,000 unit point-to-point deployment to residential customers throughout the utility’s Texas market. This will mark the first mass residential deployment of smart metering solutions that use a public wireless network as the communications backbone. Such networks allow the utility to bring efficient, secure smart grid technology to homes across multiple geographies – from dense, urban cities to remote, rural communities – all at lower cost and with greater flexibility to incorporate new technology in the future. TNMP filed a formal request to the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on May 26, 2010. |
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Metering industry leaders are working to ensure interoperability between smart meters, smart home applications and the Smart Grid overall. Current members of the new IDIS Association include Itron, Landis+Gyr and Iskraemeco. |
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The world goes smart. In tomorrow’s smart world, smart meters form the foundation of an interconnected system expanding from smart metering to smart grids and smart home applications. To secure the interoperability required to ensure a seamless flow of data and smooth upgrades towards new applications, three smart metering industry leaders have founded the IDIS (Interoperable Device Interface Specifications) Industry Association in Zug, Switzerland to make interoperability a reality in the smart metering industry. |
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Salt River Project, the third largest public power utility in the U.S., will double its deployment of Elster smart meters, expanding its total rollout to one million. A $56.9 million matching DOE Smart Grid Investment Grant will help pay for the project. |
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Elster and the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) announced today that SRP, the largest provider of electricity to the greater Phoenix metropolitan area and the third-largest public power utility in the nation, will utilize its United States Department of Energy (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) award to double its deployment of the Elster EnergyAxis® advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) Smart Grid solution. |
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Arcadian Networks, the private wireless communications provider, today announced a new smart grid communications gateway that advances AMI connectivity to its AE11g platform. The FCC-certified AE11gOW device, the latest product in its SMART Grid Gateway® series, takes interoperability to a new level by integrating the Itron OpenWay® cell relay with the Arcadian Networks’ 700 MHz platform. The two companies are currently working toward commercial authorization of the solution. |
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The Energy Department filed two requests for information on implementing the National Broadband Plan today, one asking for information on utility communications requirements and another concerning utility customers' access to electronic meter data, Smart Grid privacy and data collection policies, and the consumer role in balancing the benefits of data access and privacy. |
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