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PG&E Reaches Major Milestone Installing 9 Millionth SmartMeter(TM)

SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire - Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced it achieved a major customer milestone, having recently upgraded more than 9 million meters to SmartMeter(TM) technology. More...

ENAMC Selects Itron to Deploy Largest Advanced Data Collection System in Algeria

Itron - Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that it signed a significant contract with ENAMC, the National Company of Measurement and Control Instruments, which is located in Algeria. more...

NISC Selected by Great River Energy to Support its Smart Grid Demonstration Project

National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) - National Information Solutions Cooperative, an IT and software solution provider to more than 650 community-owned utilities and telephone organizations, has been selected by Great River Energy, a generation and transmission (G&T) co-op based in Maple Grove, Minn., to provide meter data management (MDM) and demand response (DR) management solutions to a smart grid demonstration project. more...

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Aclara Demand Response Management System Advances Load Control at Twin Valleys Public Power District

Aclara Power-Line Systems (TWACS Technology) - Aclara, a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure technologies for utilities and part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. more...

Aclara Software Solution Wins for MDM and Consumer Engagement Gain Mid-Market Momentum

Aclara Power-Line Systems (TWACS Technology) - Lafayette Utilities System (LUS), which provides electric, water, wastewater, and telecommunications services to approximately 62,000 electric customers and 52,000 water customers in Lafayette, La., will implement the Aclara Meter Data Management (MDM) system, while Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation (BREMC), Lenoir, N.C., will deploy Aclara Consumer Engagement as well as MDM, Aclara announces today. more...

Managed service offerings designed to make grid modernization a reality for more utilities, new Chartwell report reveals

Chartwell Inc. - Implementing smart grid services can require considerable resources, sometimes posing technical, financial and personnel challenges for some smaller utility organizations in particular. more...

Atlantic Municipal Utilities Selects Tantalus for AMI Deployment

Tantalus Systems Corp. - Tantalus, a leading provider of Smart Grid communications, today announced that Atlantic Municipal Utilities (AMU) has chosen Tantalus for its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployment. more...

Lafayette Utilities System Selects Elster for Smart Grid Electric and Water Project

Elster Solutions - Elster (NYSE: ELT) announced today that Lafayette Utilities System (LUS) has chosen EnergyAxis as its multi-utility Smart Grid solution. more...

Southern California Edison Installs Four Millionth Itron Smart Meter, Expands Energy Management Programs and Services for Consumers

Itron - Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today the installation of the four millionth smart meter by Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation's largest electric utilities serving central, coastal and southern California. more...

Bolivar Energy Authority Selects Elster for Smart Grid Deployment

Elster Solutions - Elster (NYSE: ELT) announced that Tennessee's Bolivar Energy Authority (BEA) has selected the Elster EnergyAxis Smart Grid solution to deliver an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system, delivering improved operational efficiencies and empowering its electric customers to better manage energy usage and lower energy costs. more...

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ENERGY BLOGS

Reliable, Resilient and Secure - Does your Smart Grid Communication Infra deliver on it's promise?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Everybody in Power Systems and Utilities community will agree to the fact that Reliable, Resilient and Secure Communications infrastructure is more...

Use Smart Meter Data and Surveys to Increase Relevance for Energy Consumers

Blogger Photo By Bryan Truex -   Utility consumers are definitely not alike; spanning the spectrum of age, orientation, needs and preferences. With utilities rolling out more...

How Not to do a reform Programme - Test Case India

By Alok Misra - Electricity reforms and technlogy development in Utilities especially in India have been long due.Those utilities who have had an interacrtion more...

Smart Meter Security : Do we need to panic? Or make mitigation strategy?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Since the beginning this week t he focus of the smart grid discussions has been  around smart meter and AMI communications more...

Technical losses and Missing Standards on Smart grid and metering etc In India- RAPDRP

By Alok Misra - Permitted technical losses in electrical distribution system design has been put at 16 % in India under the RAPDRP programme more...
 

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Demystifying Utility Analytics -- What it's all about, where it's going, and how to get started.

Monday May 21, 2012 - 11:00 AM Eastern - Virtual Event

This webinar offers pragmatic advice for utilities that are considering data analytics investments; it shares insights from a utility that has been on the leading edge of the data analytics movement in power generation; and it discusses the opportunity to more...

Customer Analytics Issues, Trends, & Drivers

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Utilities have historically made significant investments in their customer care systems and processes, yielding a data-rich environment that is now being enhanced with the influx of smart meter data. Monthly meters yielding 12 annual data events per meter will be more...

Securing AMI at BC Hydro: The Benefits of a Multi-Layered Security Architecture

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Cyber security is one of the top concerns for utilities that are implementing a smart grid network solution. Consumer privacy and data integrity are critical. The good news is that industry leaders have established proven processes and procedures to mitigate more...

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