09 Feb 2012
DistribuTECH – home of the energy press release … and time to probe energy trends for the year ahead … a great show makes for excellent media …
Smart Grid News: DistribuTECH Buzz
The Smart Grid News Team wrote a comprehensive, three-part article highlighting the major announcements made at the DistribuTECH conference. This series proved to be a very valuable index of the big news that came out of the event.
Part one covered the following press releases:
Itron apps help utilities maximize value of smart grid data
Glen Canyon wins 1.5 million virtual AMI deployment in China
New Opower Marketplace...
08 May 2012
The Japanese Smart Homes Standardization Group chose the widely acclaimed G3-PLC protocol, as one of the communications platforms for Japan’s smart meter projects for home area networks.
What happened
Rajani Baburajan at TMCNet.com reported that Maxim Integrated announced its G3-PLC protocol has been recommended as one of the communications platforms for Japan’s smart meter projects for home area networks (HANs).
Following the submission by the Smart Home Standardization Study Group, Japanese electrical utilities will use the G3-PLC protocol to establish communication between a smart meter and a home energy management system (HEMS) in HANs.
In an announcement to Utility...
15 May 2012
Two Latin American utilities sign agreement with Ventyx … while Honduras hydropower plant receives partial credit guarantee … and Brazil receives over 52GW of new power projects.
Ventyx: Closes Multimillion Dollar Network Control Deals with Leading Utilities in Latin America
Ventyx reports that it has signed multimillion-dollar contracts with power utilities:
CDEC-SIC in Chile and
UTE in Uruguay.
Each utility will receive a complete control center solution. The Ventyx Network Manager™ SCADA/Energy Management System (EMS) solution will ensure the “secure, efficient and reliable management” of the electric networks.
Roberto Falco, Vice...
12 Apr 2012
Solvers take the slog out of data analysis … while GIS report offers spatial awareness data … and US FERC’s vague Order 1000 may cause compliance complications!
Smart Grid News: Smart grid analytics: Why you should fire your coders (and hire solvers instead)
J. D. Hammerley of Areva Grid wrote an article on data analysis for Smart Grid News. Hammerley says that the electrical industry relies on “a myriad of applications for data analysis.” These are heavily coded “one-offs,” and approach is no longer the most effective way to analyze data, as it is not “cost and time to market” efficient.
Hammerley suggests the use...
04 Apr 2012
Smart meters produce data – it takes work to make the data ‘smart.’
What happened
Adam Lesser of Gigaom wrote about the difficulties faced by utilities when dealing with “big data” and the opportunities that this offers to IT companies.
According to Lesser, utilities face petabytes of data that needs to be stored for up to seven years to comply with regulation. Not only that, these utilities also need to “mine” this data and be able to pull out useful information, in a usable format, to allow them to save the time and money promised...
30 Apr 2012
UK’s new system will connect wind power faster and cheaper … Netherlands Essent and Tendril develop “first-of-its-kind” smart energy application crowdsourcing project … EU Energy Ministers meet to discuss 2050 plan … UK’s E.ON Deploys Elster Meters … UK’s energy efficient Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Smart Grid News: UK project points way to faster, cheaper wind integration
Jesse Berst of Smart Grid News writes about the UK’s “innovative” "flexible, plug-and-play” system that could see wind power integrated onto the grid “easier, faster and cheaper.” The connection of additional wind farms will result in voltage and thermal constraints, as well as reverse power flows as the UK grid is already operating beyond its capacity.
The new...
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