Smart Meter
Chilean Solar-Storage Microgrid Provider Rolls Out Cloud Billing, Customer Care Service
The first to offer residential and mid-scale "behind the meter" solar-storage microgrids and information services in Chile, Amigo Solar is one of a small but growing roster of independent power producers fueling emergence of a new class of sustainable energy "prosumers."
Read more →Self-Driving Batteries, Virtual Microgrids, and Other Uber-like Future Energy Models
This new slideshare from Professor Damien Ernst describes microgrids, V2G (Vehicle To Grid), autonomous vehicle energy delivery, and other futuristic models for the electrical industry. With seemingly daily announcement from car and technology companies, these models are much closer than…
Read more →LO3 Energy Takes Blockchain Microgrid Energy Trading Platform Down Under
Brooklyn, NY-based LO3 Energy is leveraging initial demo installations in the U.S. in a bid to expand globally. Management on Nov. 3 announced it has established itself in Byron Bay, Australia where it is in discussions with local energy market players to build demo installations and pilot P2P energy trading platforms based on Ethereum smart contracts and blockchain RDBMS technology.
Read more →Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid
Sigora Solar recently completed a solar powered microgrid in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti - a remote fishing village seven hours by truck from Port Au Prince. Sigora is a for-profit company that bills themselves as the green utility. The microgrid…
Read more →Over 5 Million Smart Electric Meters To Be Rolled Out By Con Edison, Orange & Rockland Utilities
New York regulated utilities Con Edison and O&R Utilities have decided to run with Silver Springs Networks' smart grid communications-computing platform, which is to be installed and form the core of AMI infrastructure that connects to more than 5 million smart electric and gas meters.
Read more →ComEd and Partners Moving Forward on Bronzeville's "Community of The Future"
ComEd, along with its partners are moving forward on its "Community of the Future" plans. They announced earlier this week details on its plan for the world's first "microgrid cluster" in Bronzeville Illinois. The plan showcased will feature new technologies…
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Ericsson Unveils ¨Smart Metering as a Service¨ at CES 2016
Highly reliable, secure broadband network connectivity and automated machine-to-machine communications (M2M) – aka Internet of Things (IoT) – lie at the core of the growing number of Smart City initiatives that have been cropping up in the U.S. and around…
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Internet of Things Fuels VC Smart Grid, Energy Storage Investment
Venture capital (VC) investment groups put $81 million of capital across 12 transactions to work in up-and-coming smart grid systems vendors in 3Q, substantially less than 2Q's $104 million and 18 transactions, Mercom Capital reports. Though down on a quarterly…
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How The Developing World Is Reinventing The Grid
[wpsm_column size="one-third"] [/wpsm_column] A Fresh Start The way we interact with energy is fundamentally changing. The core business model of utilities is clashing with global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adopt new technologies, and become energy independent. While massive…
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