Miscellaneous

IBM, utility partner to lay groundwork for smart grid across US state of Vermont

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 REM IBM and the Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO) used the 2012 DistribuTECH conference as the setting to announce an agreement to build an intelligent fiber optic and Carrier Ethernet communications ...

smart grid developer Itron to receive best practices award

Thursday, 19 January 2012 REM smart grid platform developer Itron Inc., will receive the North American Frost and Sullivan Award for Product Quality Leadership at next week’s DistribuTECH 2012, which is being held in San Antonio, ...

German researchers to look at post-nuclear grid optimization schemes

Wednesday, 18 January 2012 REM The German government’s decision to phase out nuclear power and expand the use of energy from renewable sources has led to examination on just what such changes will mean to the nation’s electricity ...

United Kingdom

Smart Community Project gets backing of Japanese giant Toshiba

Thursday, 22 December 2011 Toby Price Eco Island, the ambitious project to make the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England energy self-sufficient, has signed a global partnership agreement with Toshiba Corporation. As a Global Partner, ...

Paradox Engineering, NEC to collaborate on smart grid projects

Wednesday, 14 December 2011 REM Paradox Engineering and NEC Italia Spa have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore a joint development of world-class Smart Energy solutions for utilities, multi-utilities and municipalities. ...

Siemens acquires eMeter to enhance smart grid position

Tuesday, 06 December 2011 REM

Siemens Industry, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire all of the stock of eMeter Corporation, headquartered in San Mateo, California in the US.

Innovative approach to business needed for smart grid roll-out

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 REM To deliver the promised benefits of the smart grid, both energy companies and new entrants must embrace innovative new business models, Bloomberg New Energy Finance finds in new publication launched off ...

United States

KEMA opens new smart grid simulation lab

Monday, 31 October 2011 REM KEMA, a global leading authority in energy consulting, testing, and certification, has officially opened its smart grid Interop Lab in Erlanger, Kentucky (US). KEMA describes the facility as “a dynamic ...

Tech development firm announces plans for innovation city in American west

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 REM Pegasus Global Holdings, a Washington, DC-based technology development firm, is building a full-scale town on 20-square miles of New Mexico desert in the US that it says will be an incubator and laboratory ...

PowerSav invests in joint venture to enter China’s energy storage market

Friday, 02 September 2011 REM PowerSav Inc., a provider of new energy solutions to the China market, is investing in a joint venture that will initially assemble, then fully manufacture intelligent, renewable energy power systems for ...