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[SmartMeters] GE Expands Smart Grid Investment in Ireland: GE has acquired Ireland-based FMC-Tech, which develops smart grid technology equipment providing real-time power line monitoring capabilities. The acquisition of Ireland-based FMC Tech will allow real-time power line monitoring capabilities and is GE’s latest smart grid investment in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

[SmartGridNews.com] Smart Grid: A safe-and-sane process for smart grid implementations: With multiple utilities players including Public Utilities Commissions, Investor Owned Utilities, Municipal Utility Districts, REAs, Coops and others, the SMART Grid plans adoped by each utility will vary and may not be compatible with adjacent systems. Late adopters will have the advantage of natural selection among the wide rage of SMART Grid vendors, consultants and others crawling out of the woodwork to try and capture a piece of the SMART Grid pie.

[PCG Worldwide Blog] Building a Smart Grid in a Sensible Way « PCG Worldwide Blog: Smart grid technologies provide energy producers and consumers with real-time information and better control of the electric grid, improving energy reliability, reducing energy costs and minimizing greenhouse gas emissions responsible for .... As smart grid technologies get deployed, everyone has a vested interest in ensuring that security standards are developed and adopted with them to avoid unexpected opportunities for adversaries to penetrate these systems or conduct ...

[Li-Ion BMS] Review of “The Advanced Smart Grid: Edge Power Driving ...: Then, in chapter 4, one of the authors switches to the 1st person and recounts his personal experience in leading Austin Energy from a ho-hum power company, to the first company to create the Smart Grid concept and implement it. It may not have the impact of an action novel, yet I found myself excitedly reading the remarkable achievements of a little, city owned utility, as if I were reading about NASA’s conquest of the moon.

[SmartMeters] Tantalus Partnering with Indiana Utility for Smart Grid Solution: Located in Northeast, Indiana, Auburn leaders have worked to keep the city ahead of the technological curve, beginning back in 1985 when it first deployed fiber optic communications. Following in that early adopter philosophy, the city has embraced the smart grid and has decided on an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solution that would best leverage an existing Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment.

[Greenbang] S&C provides voltage control to Orkney wind project | Energy: even small systems like the single-turbine Thorkell project””need to to comply with local requirements to ensure grid stability and reliability. S&C says its single-inverter model provides an economical solution for small renewable energy projects of under 3.5 megawatts.

[greentelecomlive] Smart grid could address power wastage for NYC : greentelecomlive: she told The Epoch Times news site, adding that accurate data provided by the deployment of smart grids will allow those utilities to avoid overloading circuits by optimise their distribution model, and load-balance customer demand over their infrastructure. This would avoid inefficiencies in the network and minimise wastage due to overloaded circuits.

[Blog SmartGrid by Mach&Team: News & Columns] France: 28 million euros investment for new smart grids | Blog ...: Millener, who works at the request of individuals and the integration of renewable energy in Corsica, Guadeloupe and Reunion; Nicegrid, which will test new control modes of photovoltaic energy coupled with the storage of electricity in the town of Carros (Paca), Reflexe, that will test a device aggregation of independent power producers and seek to anticipate the energy demands in the PACA region;

[Paul's Home Computing Blog] Upcoming Cyber Security Threats Part 2: Hacking Into Smart Grids ...: The threat to smart grids which are connected across a whole country is that they will undoubtedly be vulnerable to hacking. Cybercrime organizations will see a national smart grid as an opportunity to gain control over the grid, in whole or in part, to withhold power in order to extort funds from industries who depend on uninterrupted electrical power to stay in business.

[Electric Motorcycle Blog] Smart Grid Technology Will Enable EV Adoption « Electric ...: At a briefing on Capitol Hill concerning EV infrastructure, it was said that electric vehicles can displace the use of petroleum for current autos and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It was also noted that having an electricity system that can maximize recharging of most vehicles overnight will greatly speed up the process of electric vehicle mass adoption.

[Smart Takes Blog RSS | SmartPlanet] Utility veterans: Smart grid investment helps utilities 'beat the ...: In New York, our operator had 17 seconds between first noticing [the June 27, 2007 power failure] and having to do something. But that information started long before 17 seconds, and having that smart grid could really help nip this in the bud.”

[Menlo Energy Economics] Menlo Energy Economics » Blog Archive » Time Has Arrived For Time ...: After California's 2000-01 electricity crisis, the state's grid operator as well as regulatory and energy policy agencies became obsessed with resource adequacy — having enough capacity to meet demand and avoid rolling blackouts .Regulators at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) became supportive of massive rollout of smart meters as the enabling technology that allows the introduction of Dynamic pricing (DP), which comes in many varieties .

[Tom Graves / Tetradian] Tom Graves / Tetradian » Tweets from Open Group conference, Austin: systemsflow: Governance unwrapped: Whoever controls the purse, in truth makes the architecture decisions. #bizarch >that may be ‘business-reality’, but it’s really, really dumb: what happens if ‘whoever controls the purse’

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