...the military services are currently pursuing energy initiatives to reduce fossil fuel use through innovations such as fuel cells and smart-grid generators that can conserve energy use. To that end, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 should ...

...the global information society. OASIS promotes industry consensus and produces worldwide standards for security, Cloud computing, SOA, Web services, the Smart Grid, electronic publishing, emergency management, and other areas. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow ...

Melbourne, Australia --- (METERING.COM) --- May 16, 2013 - SP AusNet has selected NetComm Wireless Limited, through its integration partner Ericsson, to supply the 3G communications card component for the Victorian government’s mandatory state-wide rollout of smart meters.

The initial order will represent revenue of Au$12.5 million (US$12.4 million) to NetComm Wireless.

Abuja, Nigeria --- (METERING.COM) --- May 16, 2013 - The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued an order mandating the country’s 11 electricity distributors to implement the new “credit advance payment for meter installation” (CAPMI) scheme from May 14.

The scheme will continue until such time as the distribution core investors take over the distributors and begin to fully implement their metering plans, which is expected by quarter 3 2013.

...EnergyHub, we can help make the Mercury platform even more valuable to its partners and customers, while also extending the smart grid to today's intelligent connected home." EnergyHub President Seth Frader-Thompson said, "Alarm.com, along with its Dealer Partners ...

Ambient Corp. has announced that all Ambient Smart Grid Nodes fully support DNP3 protocol, which enables local data aggregation and control at distributed locations on [...]

The U.S. had nearly 750,000 clean job openings in the first quarter of 2013, according to a report from Denver-based Ecotech Institute, a college that trains students for solar, wind and renewable energy jobs. The Institute says more than 8,000 of those jobs were in solar. See where else the report found gains.

...Smart Devices (Smart Meters), and 3) Asset management, Grid Optimization and Security, all in an integrated state-of-the-art Smart Grid solution that truly provides our customers with end to end grid management capability. We believe our Secure Integrated Platform ...

...applications in the following markets: public safety, military, and government applications; supervisory control and data acquisition ("SCADA"), health care, energy, smart grid and agricultural applications; indoor wireless, wireless backhaul, and cellular applications. Revenue growth for scanning receiver products, interference management products ...

...can provide device management and provisioning, location pricing customization, transaction processing, payment gateways, data collection, content management, integration with utility smart grid services, load management and demand response programs. The open architecture of this system is designed to facilitate interoperability and ...

A preview of a utility smart grid investments and infrastructure spending survey released by Newton-Evans finds that utility spending is up in areas like transmission and distribution automation, but flat or lower in operations and maintenance.

Cyberattacks aren't just nuisances anymore. Attacks against energy companies used to be considered attempts to steal information or trade secrets. Now, those attacks focus on causing serious damage to networks and equipment, news reports say.

It took a while but microgrids have been gaining ground and getting a lot of attention lately. Joule Assets CEO Mike Gordon outlines why microgrids could be the tipping point that takes forward-thinking utilities from a traditional commodity provider role to a more service-oriented one.

On the heels of its announced 210 MW solar initiative and a recent 250 MW wind purchase, Atlanta-based utility Georgia Power has added 53.5 MW [...]

The Energy Future Coalition was charged by Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland, in response to a recommendation from the Governor’s Task Force on Grid Resiliency, with developing a practical method to explore the utility of the future. This document responds to that charge.

The IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Scholarship Plus Initiative is helping prepare the next generation of power and energy engineers by awarding scholarships and career experience opportunities. June 30 is the deadline for the next round of scholarship applications.

At least 1,342 demand response (DR) programs are now under way worldwide, with 95% of them located in North America, according to a new tracker [...]

...the world's most widely deployed proven, open-standard, multi-application platform, selling complete systems and embedded sub-systems for smart grid, smart city and smart building applications. Echelon's platform is embedded in more than 100m devices, 35m homes and ...

In order to meet high electricity demand this summer, PJM Interconnection says it will rely on nearly 185 GW of available installed generation capacity and [...]

May 15, 2013Electricity Advisory Committee Meeting June 5-6, 2013

The next meeting of the Department of Energy's Electricity Advisory Committee will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, June 5 and 6, 2013 at the the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA. The final agenda is now available.