British Gas customers to get touch-screen smart-energy displays
Starting next month, British Gas will begin rolling out “stylish” touch-screen displays designed to help its customers see how much
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New Oracle system offers snapshot views of grid activity
Oracle Utilities has extended its smart-grid capabilities with the release of Oracles Utilities Network Management System 1.11, which offers
Siemens, Volvo team up to push electric-car advances
Siemens and Volvo have announced a new partnership aimed at advancing the technical development of electric cars. The two companies
Dubuque residents to test IBM home energy use portal
IBM and the city of Dubuque, Iowa, plan to spend the next six months testing an electricity portal that lets
Elster, Landis+Gyr team up to integrate their smart-grid apps
Metering firms Elster and Landis+Gyr plan to work together to jointly develop integrated advanced metering hardware for smart-grid applications.
US backs solar project set to fire up CSP capacity
A massive concentrating solar power (CSP) plant that’s just received a partial guarantee for an $852-million loan from the
Israeli consortium shines spotlight on smarter utility networks
Several companies and universities in Israel have come together to create a new group aimed at developing next-generation unified communication
Hertz teams with China's BYD to grow electric-car market
Chinese technology firm BYD, which makes internal combustion and electric cars (EVs), rechargeable batteries and solar-energy technology, is teaming up
Electrovaya project takes energy storage "to 11"
If using renewable energy rates an 9 on the sustainability scale, and coupling it with energy storage brings that to
Telvent adds smart-grid clients from Florida to China
Efficiency-focused IT solutions provider Telvent will engineer, design and implement a SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system to help
Construction starts on 1st industrial-scale CCS plant in US
Construction has begun on the US’s first large-scale industrial facility for capturing and storing carbon dioxide. Being built in
Utilities need to focus on energy ABCs for customers
Utility companies need to get back to communications basics and keep human psychology in mind when trying to engage customers