Outland Energy Services officially debuted as part of Duke Energy Renewables during the recent American Wind Energy Association trade show in Chicago. Duke Energy Renewables acquired the Minnesota-based company in late 2012. Prior to the acquisition, Outland Energy Services provided monitoring, maintenance, and site management services for wind generation facilities both domestically and internationally. It continues to provide the same services, just under the Duke Energy Renewables banner.

Enel chairman Paolo Andrea Colombo and chief executive officer and general manager Fulvio Conti honored the winners of the 2012 PlayEnergy competition. PlayEnergy, now in its ninth edition, reflects Enel’s renewed commitment to young people and schools. The initiative promotes awareness of, and concern for, energy issues by encouraging children and teens to discover the world of energy and science.

  The European Regional Development Fund has awarded Tidal Energy a £1.6 million grant to fund deployment of Wales’ first full-scale tidal energy generator in Ramsey Sound, Pembrokeshire. First Minister Carwyn Jones announced the news while attending the Renewable UK Cymru conference in Cardiff.

The city of Olympia, Washington, has selected Itron’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solution to increase operational efficiency and better manage the municipal water resources. In addition, Itron’s technology will enable the city to improve customer service and promote water conservation.

Several solar companies have joined together to push for better net metering standards for their industry. They're certainly entitled, but for those companies to say U.S. electric utilities have mounted a coordinated attack on renewables leaves us very puzzled. We tell you why.

It looks like the buzz over the UK's plans for a massive smart meter rollout has fizzled a bit with the news that deployment has been delayed by at least a year. Ovum analyst Stuart Ravens offers a critical assessment of what went wrong.

If you want to know where the smart grid action will be over at least the next several years, look toward China, Japan and Korea. They are likely to invest a lot of money in ambitious, large-scale projects, say Navigant Research and Frost & Sullivan.

...http://www.optisense.net ) a leading global provider of optical sensor-based solutions for Distribution Automation networks that enable the Smart Grid, announced today the appointment of Scott G. Durham as Vice President, Global Sales. Recruited to build and manage the ...

In a 37-26 vote Friday, the Minnesota Senate passed a bill that would require the state's investor-owned utilities to procure 1% of their electricity from [...]

GE has introduced its Smallworld Network Inventory 4.3 software solution, which the company says is designed to provide utilities and telecom operators with an end-to-end [...]

Itron Inc. has announced a strategic alliance with Choice, a Brazilian technology company, to integrate and jointly market a non-technical loss (NTL) solution to utilities [...]

Tollgrade Communications Inc. has appointed James F. Andrus vice president of global smart grid sales. In this role, Andrus will be responsible for leading Tollgrade's [...]

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May 14, 2013Expedition Provides New Insight on Gas Hydrates in Gulf of Mexico

A joint-federal-agency 15 day research expedition in the northern Gulf of Mexico yielded innovative high-resolution seismic data and imagery that will help refine characterizations of large methane hydrate resources in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.

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