renewables
Analysing the economics of commodities so you can can compare one to another is a tricky business. Make a mistake, and your decision could affect market growth for the worse, generating short-term benefits but long-term losses. Let’s consider some of the difficulties involved in the economics of energy policies,
Smart Grid
Siemens is exhibiting at the Hannover Messe this week to demonstrate, among other things, how smart grids can interact with intelligent building systems and how urban traffic flows can be optimised. Siemens’ activities in the areas of smart grids, power distribution and mobility solutions are all part of its newly
Smart Grid
It’s critical that the private sector and global governments expand collaboration to speed up deployment of smart grids around the world, according to the Global Smart Grid Federation (GSGF). The organisation made its statement during the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi. “Although the smart grid has a
smart meters
Talquin Electric Cooperative, Florida’s fifth largest distribution electrical cooperative, is implementing Sensus technologies for its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and smart metering program. The program will serve all 54,000 residential, commercial and industrial members in Talquin’s 2,600-square-mile territory. The co-op is in the process of installing
Smart Grid
Texas Electric Cooperatives (TEC) plans to offer Tantalus’ TUNet smart-grid communications technology to electric cooperatives and municipal utilities throughout Texas. TEC is the statewide association representing the interests of 65 electric distribution cooperatives and nine generation and transmission cooperatives across Texas. The alliance with Tantalus enables TEC to offer its
Smart Grid
A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) says the widespread deployment of smart grids is crucial to achieving a more secure and sustainable energy future. With current trends in the supply and use of energy becoming increasingly untenable — economically, environmentally and socially — the IEA asserts that smart grids
energy
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has reached an agreement to sell to Wipro Ltd. certain SAIC operations focused on providing specialised IT services to oil and gas companies. The operations being sold comprise SAIC’s US oil and gas IT services business along with subsidiaries located in the UK, France,
green buildings
With rising sea levels, the hottest summers and coldest winters on record and holes in the ozone, the world must change its energy-munching ways to combat the impending doom. Happily, the potential apocalypse can be battled from the home, and in impressive style. 1. Cape Schanck House Location: Victoria, Australia
energy
Starting this summer, groundbreaking will begin on a long-dreamed-of energy project that’s become possible only recently thanks to advances in technology: a high-tech link that will finally connect the US’s three major electricity grids into one. The Tres Amigas project will connect three grids that currently operate as
Smart Grid
Australian Energy Market Operator Ltd. (AEMO) will implement a solution from Itron to automate short-term load forecasting for the National Electricity Market (NEM) in Australia — a market that includes New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. Through this partnership, Itron will implement an end-to-end solution to streamline AEMO’
smart meters
Currently available literature indicates that exposure to RF energy from smart meters should be less than that experienced by routine mobile or cell phone use. That’s one of the conclusions reached in a recent study by the Monterey County Health Department’s Public Health Bureau, Epidemiology and Evaluation. Other
Smart Grid
In deregulated energy markets, customers and their main contact point — energy retailers — have a unique opportunity, technologically as well as economically, to advance the efficient development of the smart grid throughout Europe’s competitive energy markets. A new whitepaper from the European Technology Platform for the Electricity Networks of the
