Smart grid data analytics, or software and services that can mine power grid data, will grow from a $356 million market to $4.2 billion by 2015, Pike Research predicts. Read More »
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Lockheed Martin has turned to the smart grid with a vengeance. The gigantic defense contractor has been helping utilities design, manage and secure smart meter networks, distribution grid sensor systems and microgrids for years, but in the past year has ramped up its efforts. Read More »
The smart grid is a network and one company can’t provide all of the end-to-end gear. That’s why strategic partnerships will be key for companies, particularly startups. This morning Grid Net announced that it’s partnered with software heavyweight Oracle to sell its network and meter management… Read More »
You know a problem has gotten out of hand when there’s a task force created to address it. Today PG&E and partners announced the creation of the “Smart Grid Task Force” that will tackle an area that has been sorely needed for the smart grid: public… Read More »
The match has started, says Guido Bartels, General Manager of IBM’s Global Energy & Utilities industry, in reference to the increasingly competitive smart grid industry. IBM, which sells a long list of networking and integration software as well as consulting services to utilities, has been selling… Read More »
If you’ve ever walked through a skyscraper-laden city on a windy day, you know how big buildings can intensify the gales, creating wind tunnels that accelerate the gusts so that they blow off hats and flip up skirts. Now a 3-year-old Akron, Ohio-based startup called… Read More »
Companies building smart meters and the network infrastructure that allows them to communicate back to electric utilities generate most of the buzz around the emerging smart grid. But all that data sent from those smart meters has to be gathered, analyzed and acted upon by utilities,… Read More »
While the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill is being fiercely debated right now, some form of carbon regulation will be implemented in the U.S. in coming years. That means there will be a massive need for software to manage the process of validating and recording… Read More »
