U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu Announces Resignation
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu has announced that he will not serve a second term. In a newly released letter to DOE [...]
SPP Approves $751 Million In Transmission-Expansion Projects
The Southwest Power Pool's (SPP) board of directors has approved a near-term transmission-expansion plan that will result in the construction of $751 million in new [...]
Renewables And Efficiency On The Rise, Transforming U.S. Energy Landscape
The U.S. is consuming energy considerably more efficiently and with lower emissions than just five years ago, thanks to a slew of modern technologies that [...]
City Of Kings Mountain Taps SAIC For Smart Grid Pilot
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) reports that the City of Kings Mountain, N.C., has recently awarded the company a contract to deliver smart grid infrastructure [...]
Hawaiian Electric Co. Chooses FreeWave's Wireless Data Solutions
Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) has selected FreeWave Technologies for a fault circuit indicator (FCI) project. By installing FCIs throughout the island of Oahu and utilizing [...]
EnerNOC Supplying Smart Grid Solutions In Australia
Boston-based EnerNOC Inc. has announced that Australian electricity retailer ERM Power will provide DemandSMART, EnerNOC's demand response application, and EfficiencySMART, EnerNOC's software-as-a-service (SaaS) energy efficiency [...]
Coldwater BPU Deploying MeterSense, CustomerConnect
The Coldwater Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has chosen MeterSense and CustomerConnect, Harris Utilities' meter data management (MDM) solution and customer engagement solution (CES), respectively, [...]
GE-Led Collaboration To Help Protect SCE's Transmission System
GE says Southern California Edison (SCE) has called on the company to provide a centralized remedial action scheme (CRAS) solution to facilitate the operation of [...]
AMSC And Nexans Supplying Fault Current Limiter For European Project
AMSC has announced an order from Nexans for high-temperature superconductor (HTS) wire to be used in a superconductor fault current limiter (SFCL). The SFCL will [...]
10-Year Low For New England's Electricity Prices In 2012
Wholesale electricity prices in New England fell by nearly 23% last year to their lowest levels since 2003, according to ISO New England Inc., operator [...]
NorthWestern Energy To Make Transmission Upgrades In Montana
NorthWestern Energy, which serves approximately 673,200 customers in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska, has announced a plan to upgrade its electric transmission infrastructure in Stillwater [...]
Smart Grid Sector Sees $434M In VC Funding, $17B In M&A Transactions
After a slow start, venture capital (VC) funding in the smart grid sector equaled $434 million in 40 deals in 2012, compared to $377 million [...]
SDG&E Strives To Develop 'Self-Healing' Grid
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) says it is installing several smart grid technologies on the electric grid in the San Diego region in order [...]
Minnesota Power Outlines Plans For New Transmission Line, More Renewables
Minnesota Power, a Duluth-based division of ALLETE Inc., has unveiled its EnergyForward resource strategy. Among other initiatives, the utility's EnergyForward plan calls for renewable energy [...]
GE Introduces Point-To-Multipoint Smart Grid Solution
GE's Digital Energy business has introduced its Grid IQ Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) solution, which the company says provides secure, scalable, high-capacity and [...]
Aclara Introduces New Mobile App For Utilities
St. Louis-based Aclara Technologies LLC has introduced the Aclara Mobile Experience (AME), a turnkey solution for Apple iOS and Google Android devices that performs a [...]
McAfee And SUBNET Partner On Substation Security
McAfee and SUBNET Solutions Inc. say they have joined together to offer a unified substation security solution to address the growing cybersecurity needs for electric [...]