Smart Meters

Energy Generation
The Ever-Changing Face of Smart Grid
Engerati’s Strategic Business Review-The Future of the Smart Grid: The ICT and Data Management Perspective, examines format issues that the smart grid faces, high impact issues, the Asian market, new technology, as well as national trends for transnational approaches.

Gas
The Exposed Smart Grid
Security threats to the smart grid are a reality which utilities have to grapple with in order to avoid major grid catastrophes. In Engerati’s The Future of the Smart Grid: The ICT and Data Management Perspective (The Big Report, the authors examine the factors that open the smart grid to security threats and how utilities are (and should be) dealing with them.
Energy Retail
California electric market operator welcomes demand response
The energy industry has long recognized effective demand response (a key smart grid application) as the equivalent of a power generation asset. Now, a new California Public Utility Commission decision allows demand response "aggregators" to provide their services to the California Independent System Operator, the state's wholesale market operator. This approach contrasts with many other states and countries, where direct participation by aggregators in the wholesale market is not permitted.

Energy Retail
Centralizing Consumption Data
Millions of smart electric and gas meters are being deployed around the world, creating a wealth of data which must be collected, sorted, managed and finally analyzed. Is the UK's central station where data will be consolidated and distributed to interested parties the answer?

Transmission & Distribution
The Smart Meter-A Beacon in the Storm
A compelling case can be made for the enhanced reliability and overall functionality that smart-grid technology offers during major power outages.

Energy Retail
Expert Interview: Paul Glass, Metering Change Manager, Anglian Water
The different challenges faced by a water utility when starting their Smart Meter journey

Energy Retail
Factors Slowing Smart Grid Development
There is no doubt that the smart grid will transform the energy system as we know it. However, major obstacles stand firmly in the way of a smooth smart grid revolution. Key findings from the Engerati Big Report on the future of the smart grid.

Energy Generation
NSW High Power Bills-Overtime is to Blame
NSW power bills are on the rise, thanks to power distributors paying their staff overtime and grid maintenance.

Energy Retail
Ownership of Data and its Management
The smart grid is supplying today’s utilities with a flood of data which needs to be managed effectively otherwise its value will be lost.

Energy Retail
Interview with Gabriele Riedmann De Trinidad, head of the Energy business sector, Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom: "Information technology and processing will play a decisive role in tomorrow's energy industry"

Energy Generation
Providing more advanced energy management solutions a Toshiba interview
Exclusive interview with Takeshi Yokota, Executive Officer Corporate Vice President, Social Infrastructure Systems Company, Toshiba Corporation. Toshiba and Landis+Gyr are joint platinum sponsors at Metering, Billing/CRM Europe.