Comments on: Cali Utilities: Get Ready to Give Your Customers Smart Meter Data! http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:27:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: California’s Smart Meter Battle: Google vs. Utilities | AniChaos.com http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30853 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:30:50 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30853 [...] smart meters and energy prices. Google says the state should require its big utilities to give near real-time pricing information to every smart meter-enabled customer by the end of next year. California’s big three utilities — Pacific Gas & [...]

]]> By: California’s Smart Meter Battle: Google vs. Utilities « Attorney Don Hecker Release http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30852 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:10:57 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30852 [...] smart meters and energy prices. Google says the state should require its big utilities to give near real-time pricing information to every smart meter-enabled customer by the end of next year. California’s big three utilities — Pacific Gas & [...]

]]> By: California’s Smart Meter Battle: Google vs. Utilities http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30851 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:30 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30851 [...] smart meters and energy prices. Google says the state should require its big utilities to give near real-time pricing information to every smart meter-enabled customer by the end of next year. California’s big three utilities — Pacific Gas & [...]

]]> By: Why Google and Grid Net Should Team Up On the Smart Grid http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30850 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:05:22 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30850 [...] Google has also been very vocal on the issue of utilities providing real-time energy data to consumers and has been involved in the process of the California Public Utility Commission asking investor-owned utilities to provide this data to consumers by a certain deadline. On that issue Google’s policy counsel Michael Terrell told us that the CPUC process is “a hugely important proceeding that will determine how the ecosystem in this space evolves.” [...]

]]> By: What the FCC’s National Broadband Plan Recommends for Smart Grid, Energy http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30849 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:43:45 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30849 [...] one day utilities all over the U.S. will be following in the footsteps of states like California, whose public utility commission has called for consumers to have access to smart grid data by the end of 2010 and real-time smart grid data by the [...]

]]> By: FCC Broadband Plan Goal: Use Broadband to Manage Energy Consumption http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30848 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:08:49 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30848 [...] Public Utilities Commission, tech vendors and utilities. The California Public Utilities Commission said back in December that Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric should [...]

]]> By: Serena Matter http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30847 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:13:38 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30847 It definitely seems clear that many utilities have a great deal of work ahead of them as you’ve suggested. The advice that better customer relations and transparency can only help utilities struggling to explain Smart Grid to their millions of customers makes a lot of sense.

However, it’s not clear if all utilities fully understand the new customer services challenges of the Smart Grid world. In fact, a new industry report has suggested many utilities are quite unprepared to manage the increases in call volume and electronic interaction from energy consumers. You can download the report here: http://ow.ly/19XGc. It seems that if utilities don’t increase both their technical information infrastructure and their customer service capabilities, there could be quite a few unhappy homeowners listening to a lot of elevator music while on hold in the future.

]]> By: Arun Mathur http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30846 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:25:03 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30846 Jeff, As always, great reporting. Really helpful information on this ‘dark secret’ of a topic.

]]> By: Count the Ways to Connect Consumers to the Smart Grid http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30845 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:15:37 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30845 [...] slow pace is starting to get some pushback from regulators. California regulators have asked the state’s big investor-owned utilities to give all smart meter-… — a timeline that could be challenging to meet. Questions of which standards will prevail in the [...]

]]> By: Smart Grid Blog » Blog Archive » Cali Utilities: Get Ready to Give Your Customers Smart Meter Data! http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30844 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:30:25 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30844 [...] via Cali Utilities: Get Ready to Give Your Customers Smart Meter Data!. [...]

]]> By: Jonas Lamis http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30843 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:30:33 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30843 In Austin, the Pecan Street Project recently received at $10.4M DOE grant to roll out a Smart Grid trial project. We have recently launch Pecan Commons as a Smart Grid entrepreneur community to feed interesting ideas to PSP and other Smart Grid initiatives. Check out our launch video: http://www.techranchaustin.com/node/108 and get involved at http://www.pecancommons.org.

]]> By: Rise & Shine: February 19, 2010 | Sweet Solar Home http://gigaom.com/cleantech/cali-utilities-get-ready-to-give-your-customers-smart-meter-data/#comment-30842 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:50:23 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=51701#comment-30842 [...] INDUSTRY & REGULATORY NEWS Cali Utilities: Get ready to Give Your Customers Smart Meter Data! By the end of 2011, the CPUC wants the big investor-owned utilities to provide customers and [...]

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