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Smart Grid Roundup: Schneider to Buy Invensys, Itron Sags in Q2 14 Aug 2013 | 01:10 pm
Catching up on the smart grid news of note, let’s start with one of the biggest acquisitions in years for French grid and power equipment giant Schneider Electric: its $5.2 billion takeover of U.K.-ba...
ZigBee takes off in set-top boxes 14 Aug 2013 | 01:09 pm
The ZigBee RF4CE standard is rapidly gaining acceptance in the set-top box (STB) market where it currently serves mainly as a replacement for infrared (IR) technology in remote controls. However, due ...
European Utility Week to focus on how Smart Homes industry can engage its customer 7 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
Hundreds of representatives of stakeholders in the Smart Homes industry, including utilities, telcos and service & content providers, will gather during the annual European Utility Week in Amsterdam i...
Esensors to develop bluetooth sensors gateway for smart building, IoT 5 Aug 2013 | 09:46 pm
An electronic sensor development company has announced that it is developing an Internet gateway for Bluetooth LE enabled sensors — A crowdfunding project — which is aimed at smart buildings, smart gr...
Wind energy storage summit co-located with CanWEA2013 announced 2 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
Aug 2, 2013 – Toronto, ON — The program for the inaugural Renewable Energy Storage Summit was announced today with leading system operators, utilities, wind developers and investors featured. The Summ...
Smart Grid Clash of Titans 11 Jul 2013 | 09:12 pm
Two industries which have developed entirely independently are on a collision course in the smart grid. Over the last few decades, the personal computer has developed to become a common place for hum...
FPL smart-meters can help detect faulty meter-boxes at homes, but who should pay for repairs? 9 Jul 2013 | 01:10 am
Florida Power & Light’s $800 million smart-meter program is sparking controversy — again. This time, the concern is whether the new digital meters can damage the boxes that they’re enclosed in, and i...
Alstom Inaugurates Smart Grid Center 6 Jul 2013 | 02:32 pm
Alstom chairman and chief executive officer Patrick Kron has inaugurated the Smart Grid Centre of Excellence in Montpellier. France. Attending the ceremony was Jean-Pierre Moure, Président de la Commu...
Smart Grid Reality Check, Part III: Microgrids 2 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a three-part series. Part I can be viewed here and Part II here. Microgrids may well become a platform for integrating technologies such as distributed...
Some Snapshots of China’s Smart Grid 2 Jul 2013 | 12:41 am
China is in the midst of a wholesale rebuilding of its power grid, and that’s going to make it the biggest smart grid market in the world someday. Over the course of this and last year, China has bee...
