China Southern Power Grid Company Adopts D-VAR Solution to Increase Grid Reliability. Xiamen Red Phase Instruments Inc. Becomes Channel Partner for AMSC.
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New Web site Empowers Consumers to Reduce Energy Costs and Carbon Footprint
Xcel Energy and GridPoint, Inc., today announced that 1.4 million residential Colorado utility customers now have access to the My Account site using GridPoint?s recently released home energy management solution.
Continue readingGE Bringing State-of-the-Art Smart Grid to China
The City of Yangzhou and GE (NYSE: GE) will be working together to help bring the benefits of smart grid technologies to China.
Continue readingChevrolet and OnStar Give Volt Owners 24/7 Connection and Control
Chevrolet Volt First Electric Vehicle to Demonstrate Wireless Smartphone Application — Volt showcases technology beyond the battery with OnStar Mobile Application — OnStar created a mobile application for Volt.
Continue readingP2030 Smart Grid Working Group for the power engineering
The IEEE Standards Association announced the meeting of its P2030 Smart Grid Working Group for the power engineering, communications and information technology industries will take place January 26-29, 2010, in Detroit.
Continue readingEurope unites to build renewable energy supergrid
The network, made up of thousands of kilometres of highly efficient undersea cables that could cost up to ?30bn would solve one of the biggest criticisms faced by renewable power.
Continue readingSmart Grids and Distributed Energy Create opportunities for Diversity in Energy Storage
There is no reason at all to limit our concepts of grid energy storage and buffers to electricity and batteries?and many opportunities open up if we do not.
Continue readingUtility Innovations Advisory Service
Pike Research announced the launch of its new Utility Innovations Advisory Service. More than 150,000 new and replacement wind turbines will be installed worldwide during the period from 2010 to 2015.
Continue readingThe Past and Future of Smart Grid
Smart grid may be the most hyped words of 2009 in the green tech space, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of hard, cold cash behind the hype.
Continue readingNV Energy Selects Sensus for Advanced Smart Grid
NV Energy has selected the Sensus smart grid solution for its advanced metering infrastructure, and is expected to deploy as many as 1.3 million electric and 155,000 gas meters.
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Networking and Communications, Energy Management, Grid Automation, and Advanced Metering Infrastructure.
Continue readingEndesa lidera el primer proyecto europeo para almacenar electricidad
Endesa acaba de lograr la aprobación gubernamental para lanzar, a través del proyecto Store, el desarrollo de sistemas de almacenamiento de electricidad a gran escala.
Continue readingElectric Vehicles: A Case for Electricity
Politics and the power of entrenched economic interests aside, the best way to reduce carbon emissions is to utilize the ever cleaner, greener, more renewable grid to power transportation.
Continue readingLa demanda de electricidad desciende un 4,6% y la eólica supera al carbón en 2009
La demanda peninsular de energía eléctrica durante 2009 ha sido de 251.305 GWh, un 4,6% inferior que en el año 2008. Este descenso representa la primera tasa negativa anual.
Continue readingTucson?s Second Chargepoint Networked Charging Stations
Coulomb Technologies, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange and Pima Association of Governments? Clean Cities program announced the groundbreaking of Tucson?s second ChargePoint® Networked Charging Station for Electric Vehicles.
Continue readingNorth America and Asia Gaining Ground in Global Electric Car Infrastructure
Currently holding over 60% of the $49 billion of the electric vehicles (EV) production and infrastructure development market, Europe has a strong role in today’s EV industry.
Continue readinge-mobility Berlin delivers smart solutions for electric mobility
RWE and Daimler start the second phase of their joint large-scale project. “e-mobility Berlin” for sustainable electric mobility.
Continue readingEU Commission Outline is a Positive Action Plan for Much-Needed Border-Neutral Carbon Reduction
GE (NYSE: GE) Applauds the Introduction of a Smart Grid Roadmap and Commitment for Europe, but Believes Build Out Can Begin Sooner Through Viable Technologies Ready and Available Today.
Continue readingCongress considers bill on V2G technology
A bill introduced in Congress by U.S. Rep. Jose E. Serrano (D-New York) would provide funding to use vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, technology, which was developed at the University of Delaware.
Continue readingIBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities
IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.
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