16 Apr 2012
India’s Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company ordered turnkey (SCADA/DMS for the power distribution networks in eight cities.
What happened
According to Smart Grid News, Siemens will install supervisory control and data acquisition technology for power distribution networks in eight Indian cities, including greater Mumbai. The US$24.5m contract was awarded under the Indian government’s Restructured Accelerated Power Development Reforms Programs (R-APDRP.)
Background
According to the IEEE Smart grid, India’s R-APDRP was formulated in 2008 to be completed within a three to five year period. R-APDRP...
29 Nov 2011
A continuing black-eye for how US utilities handle Smart Grid conversions. The City of Boulder in Colorado, US has voted to convert its electric infrastructure from private to public ownership. The private utility, Xcel Energy had spent a lot of money attempting to make Boulder the world’s first Smart Grid City. It seems Xcel should have spent...
What Happened
One of the world’s first smart grid cities, designed to prove that smart grid technologies could deliver value to customers, has created a political, and eventually economic, dispute between one of the bigger publically-owned utilities in the US, Xcel Energy, and one of the most progressive, technology-friendly communities in the US, Boulder, Colorado, resulting in bad news for all concerned.
Background
Xcel Energy, an electric utility serving eight Southwest and...
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