Ameren Illinois Selects Landis+Gyr For Smart Grid Project
Landis+Gyr says it has been selected by Ameren Illinois to provide a comprehensive advanced metering and meter data management solution for the utility's smart grid [...]
Alliant Energy Selects Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing
Alliant Energy Corp., an electric and natural gas services provider with 1.4 million customers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, has selected Oracle Utilities Customer Care [...]
Itron To Offer 3G Cellular Platform For Smart Grid
Liberty Lake, Wash.-based Itron Inc. has announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., on a next-generation smart energy platform [...]
Tampa Electric Co. To Deploy Trilliant's SecureMesh WAN
Trilliant has announced that Florida-based utility Tampa Electric Co. will deploy the company's SecureMesh wide-area network (WAN), a broadband mesh network. Trilliant says its SecureMesh [...]
Nexant Launches GRID360 Distribution Manager
Nexant Inc. has launched GRID360 Distribution Manager, a network modeling and simulation software application that enables utilities to build, analyze, simulate and optimize distribution networks. [...]
EnerNOC, Numenta Join Forces To Boost Demand Response
EnerNOC Inc., a provider of energy management applications, has announced a new partnership with Numenta, a machine intelligence company. According to the companies, this partnership [...]
Inspector General: Energy Department Mismanaged ARRA Smart Grid Funds
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) mismanaged millions of dollars in funding for the Smart Grid Demonstration Program, finds a new audit report from DOE [...]
Two Illinois Women Arrested After Blocking Smart Meter Installers
Two women were arrested in Naperville, Ill., last week after interfering with smart meter installations at their respective homes. The women, Malia Bendis and Jennifer [...]
Google Backs Smart Grid Policy Efforts With $2.56M Grant
Google.org is awarding a $2.56 million grant to the Energy Foundation to support policy reforms related to "more intelligent energy use." In a recent company [...]
Oncor Deploys Intergraph's InService Outage Management System
Oncor, the sixth-largest transmission and distribution company in the U.S., recently deployed Intergraph's InService outage management system (OMS). According to Intergraph, the OMS increases network [...]
Jetlun Solution To Help Connect Smart Meters In Multi-Dwelling Units
San Francisco-based Jetlun Corp. has introduced the Jetlun Advanced Metering Solution (JAMES), a ZigBee and HomePlug network bridge that connects ZigBee-based smart meters to the [...]
SDG&E Offering Customers PowerTools Energy-Usage App
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Candi Controls have announced that the PowerTools app is available for customers to download on their mobile phone [...]
Trilliant Launches Enhanced SecureMesh WAN Series
Trilliant, a smart grid communications provider, has unveiled the newly enhanced SecureMesh WAN 1100 series. Part of the Trilliant Communications Platform, the SecureMesh WAN is [...]