EU: EUR65m to upgrade Romanian network
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 65 million to Transelectrica SA to support its medium-term investment programme, which involves modernising and retro-fitting seven high-voltage substations in Romania’s power transmission grid
Click here for full storyThe US Department of Energy has offered a $17 million conditional loan guarantee to support a 20-megawatt energy storage project in New York State.
Click here for full storyGE, in conjunction with a group of venture capital funds, has pledged to invest $US200 million in the best ideas to accelerate the development of a smart electricity grid.
Click here for full storyGE announced today a $200 million open innovation challenge that seeks breakthrough ideas to create a smarter, cleaner, more efficient electric grid, and accelerate the adoption of more efficient grid technologies. GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt unveiled the challenge, the "GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid," here today.
Click here for full storyNewcastle, іn thе state οf Nеw South Wales, wіƖƖ bе thе first Australian city tο ɡο onto a smart grid іn whаt thе government ѕауѕ mау possibly bе a nationwide change.
Click here for full storyThe term Smart Grid has been used for decades to mean anything from "a ring main for a country" to the far more responsive, interactive and intrusive electricity distribution systems of the future. These will become fractal in nature because they will seamlessly incorporate home networks, smart meters, electricity generation on your house and maybe even personal generation and use of electricity as reported in Energy Harvesting Journal.
Click here for full storyA project will focus on exploring the impacts and benefits of embedded generation and renewable energy developments for Australian electricity networks.
Click here for full storyEnergy Australia, the state-owned utility of New South Wales, says it has employed technology from TIBCO Software Inc. to form the backbone of its advanced metering infrastructure and meter data management systems.
Click here for full storyThe Energy Networks Association (ENA) Chief Executive, Andrew Blyth, has congratulated one of ENA’s member companies, EnergyAustralia, which was announced as the successful bidder for the government’s $100 million Smart Grid, Smart City demonstration project.
Click here for full storyTechnology giants and conglomerates looking to expand into new growth markets are hunting for expertise and technology in the smart grid area, as power utilities move to upgrade the massive but aging electricity supply system.
Click here for full storyThe fundamental shift that has taken place in environmental policies since 2007 will have a huge effect on the utilities market. Energy policies that were developed prior to this now need to be considered in relation to the new climate change and environmental realities - and for the ICT and energy industries this will involve checking government initiatives such as smart meters and national fibre telecoms networks against the new directions.
Click here for full storyNewcastle is set to undergo one of its biggest transformations yet to become the nation's greenest city, leading the way to a clean-energy future.
Click here for full storyElectrical engineers will tell you that heat needs more energy than light. Whilst recent public discussion in Australia on smart meters has certainly generated plenty of heat, what we really need is for more light to be shed to understand what the smart meter rollout is all about.
Click here for full storyAlthough we live in a world that uses increasing amounts of energy and has invested huge amounts of money in information and communication technology, most of the technology we use to track energy use has been around since the 1890s.
Click here for full storyPlug-in points for electric cars and electricity meters enabling appliances to be turned off over the internet will be installed in central Sydney and Newcastle, after NSW won a bid for $100 million in federal government climate change funding.
Click here for full storyhe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently released an initial study assessing the operational impacts and economics of increased contributions from wind and solar energy producers on the power grid.
Click here for full storyThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today released an initial study assessing the operational impacts and economics of increased contributions from wind and solar energy producers on the power grid.
Click here for full storyThe U.K. government pledged to build an power distribution grid offshore, removing one of the barriers to expanding wind and tidal energy planning to new plants to generate electricity.
Click here for full storyThe Federal Government has missed an electric opportunity to link its $100 million smart grid dreams to key announcements in the Budget, two weeks after it was supposed to announce a winning bidder for a demonstration project.
Click here for full storyLast summer, I wrote about the SunSpec Alliance, a consortium of technology companies and other organizations working toward open communications standards that will help renewable energy systems integrate more easily into existing electric grid and utility information management systems.
Click here for full storyKangaroo Island's mayor says the Australian Energy Regulator's decision not to let ETSA replace the underwater electricity cable to the island puts most of its electricity supply at risk.
Click here for full storyThe development of a high voltage electricity transmission line between Mount Isa and Townsville Queensland, Australia, will open a major renewable energy generation corridor, according to a new report.
Click here for full storyThere’s good news to report about the public’s perceptions of the smart grid . . . and then there’s bad news. The good news is that people who know a little or a lot about smart grid technology are overwhelmingly in favor of pursuing and adopting it as soon as possible. The bad news is that the number of smart grid enthusiasts is only a small fraction of all people.
Click here for full storyU.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced Thursday that the Department of Energy is awarding nearly $100 million for 54 smart grid workforce training programs, including $2.5 million for the Oregon Institute of Technology’s renewable energy engineering program.
Click here for full storyThe Queensland Resources Council (QRC) claims it will cost $1 billion to construct transmission lines linking Mount Isa to Townsville, but will create 1,800 jobs in the region.
Click here for full storyThere are many experts who feel that the market potential of renewable energy will only be fully realized if smart grid technologies and services are successful. But first, we need to define the smart grid.
Click here for full storyWorries over the installation of smart meters isn’t just happening grassroots-style in select cities in the U.S., (Dallas, Texas and Bakersfield, Calif). Last week the government for the Australian state of Victoria declared an indefinite moratorium on the time of use pricing for its $2 billion plan to roll out 2.5 million smart meters to residents and small businesses.
Click here for full storySMART'' electricity meters, which have a greater capacity to monitor power use, have already been installed in more than 10,000 Victorian homes. The meters have been touted as a way of improving energy efficiency in an era of climate change.
Click here for full storyThe state government has temporarily pulled the plug on Victoria's $2 billion smart energy meter program.
Click here for full storyWith government and business leaders assembled this week in Sydney, Australia for the 2010 National Smart Grid Forum, GE on March 23 released the results of a new consumer survey. One of the key challenges that emerged is that the majority of Australian consumers, much like their U.S. counterparts, don’t know what a smart grid is — pointing to the critical need for the industry to focus attention on consumer awareness.
Click here for full storySilver Spring Networks -- the people who want to hook your home's electricity meter to the grid with mesh radios -- will work with Australia's Western Power to link up one of the most isolated electricity networks in the world.
Click here for full storyEnergy Australia was keen for the emergent $43 billion National Broadband Network Company to step up to become utilities' gateway to households and businesses, its managing director said.
Click here for full storyThe ACMA's chairman has warned Australia's energy industry that it needs to come up with a harmonised set of requirements for smart grid spectrum, or face losing out to other industries.
Click here for full storyHuge increases in electricity prices might be more palatable if we were getting, for our money, a cleaner and more efficient grid that helped us respond effectively to climate change.
Click here for full storyVattenfall, the Swedish power group, agreed to sell its German grid to Elia of Belgium and an Australian infrastructure investment fund for €810m ($1.1bn).
Click here for full storyWe spoke to the Energy Networks Association’s chief executive officer Andrew Blyth about network charges, and importantly for all of us, why they are continually increasing.
Click here for full storyThe concept of storing electricity generated in a utility grid has been tried since the beginning of the power industry. In the U.S., large-scale storage projects flourished in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s as utilities added 18 GWs of pumped hydro facilities to support the rapid build out of the fleet of nuclear power plants across the nation.
Click here for full storyWestern Power has announced the partners which will be providing software and meters for its smart grid trial, with meters expected to be installed by June.
Click here for full storyThe nature of the power grid is about to fundamentally change, analyst Paul Budde believes. Instead of a central power station pushing energy out to homes, farms and business sites around the grid, many sites will become capable of generating renewable power and sharing it around the grid via a “smart” management system that uses computer analysis to trigger switchgear.
Click here for full storyA fundamental shift has taken place in environmental policies since 2007 and has subsequently had a huge effect on the utilities market. Energy policies that were developed prior to this now need to be considered in relation to the new climate change and environmental realities – and for the ICT and energy industries this will involve checking government initiatives such as smart meters and national fibre telecoms networks against new directions such as smart grids.
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