What Energy Harvesting Means to Smart Grid and M2M Sectors ……There’s new research underway that can unlock the potentials for the Smart Grid and M2M sectors. It builds on energy harvesting research, but has the objective of completely eliminating the need for a wired power delivery or battery replacements in devices. The best phrase to … Continue reading What Energy Harvesting Means to Smart Grid and M2M Sectors
Annual Transmission Synchrophasor Revenue is Expected to Grow from $8.5 Billion in 2014 to $16.7 Billion in 2023, According to Navigant Research A recent report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for the eight underlying technologies that are the primary components of synchrophasors/wide area situational awareness (SWASA) solutions, including global market forecasts for revenue … Continue reading Annual Transmission #Synchrophasor Revenue is Expected to Grow from $8.5 Billion in 2014 to $16.7 Billion in 2023, According to Navigant Research
How Synchrophasors Are Bringing The Grid Into The 21st Century Have you ever heard of a synchrophasor? It may sound like a word out of science fiction, but these mailbox-sized devices are already changing the electrical grid as we know it. The grid was born over a century ago, at a time when our needs … Continue reading How #Synchrophasors Are Bringing The Grid Into The 21st Century
What is Prosumer Value to Utilities? The Age of the Prosumer presents challenges for utilities accustomed to thinking of their customers in terms of kilowatthours consumed. The Smart Grid is responsible for these challenges, borne out of technology, policy, and capital innovations. These innovations are triggering many disruptions to the utility business model, and will … Continue reading What is Prosumer Value to Utilities?
Grids Could Balance Themselves, Says Study Germany’s huge investment in renewables has cut demand for fossil fuels, but it has also brought a new source of instability to the grid. Intermittent renewables, such as wind and solar power, increase the difficulty of monitoring and balancing the grid as the amount of power being produced fluctuates. … Continue reading Grids Could Balance Themselves, Says Study
Lombard streetlights get smart with ComEd LOMBARD – The village of Lombard has been selected by ComEd for a pilot program that will install about 400 smart LED streetlights across the village. The streetlights are currently being replaced, and the new LED streetlights will be installed at no cost to Lombard or Bensenville, another town … Continue reading Lombard streetlights get smart with ComEd
Con Edison to spend $1.b bn to update electric and gas meters Con Edison has announced a proposal to update its electric and gas meters at the cost of nearly $1.5 billion. As part of an eight-year long advanced metering initiative, the utility will replace its old meters with advanced ones for 10 million New … Continue reading Con Edison to spend $1.b bn to update electric and gas meters
AT&T Links With GE on IoT, Smart Energy AT&T has bolstered its partnership with GE, targeting small and midsized utility companies looking to deploy smart energy solutions and leverage the Internet of Things (IoT). Much of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE)’s infrastructure and assets have been connected via AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T)’s network since 2013. … Continue reading AT&T Links With GE on IoT, Smart Energy
Why utilities are rushing to replace and modernize the aging grid Utility executives identified aging infrastructure as the number one challenge facing the electric industry, in a recent Utility Dive survey, easily topping an aging workforce, regulatory models and stagnant load growth. In response, the industry is spending hundreds of billions to replace and upgrade … Continue reading Why utilities are rushing to replace and modernize the aging grid
Utility Execs Weigh Industry Change: ‘You Don’t Want to Find Yourself in a Reactive Mode’ If DistribuTECH 2015 drove home a single message, it’s that times are changing for the power sector. Jeff Martin, CEO of San Diego Gas & Electric, believes there will be more change in the utility industry over the next 10 … Continue reading Utility Execs Weigh Industry Change: ‘You Don’t Want to Find Yourself in a Reactive Mode’
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