http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/ Sun, 27 May 2012 04:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21472 Sat, 01 May 2010 00:40:17 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21472 The winners will be the federal government and the losers will be the consumer. This is in no way a good idea. The smart money will be spent on solar so a person or household can get off the grid and be secure again. This is a very bad plan and a decision that is political made by a socialist politician.

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21471 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:49:57 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21471 [...] meters in U.S. history (the $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds) will do that for a company. Smart grid analyst Jesse Berst explained Itron’s influence to me like this last year: A utility doesn’t do a large smart meter rollout without talking to [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21470 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:10:16 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21470 If smart meters are like “demand meters” , they will be just as big of a RIP OFF!!!!!!!!! We will be paying 10 times more for our elec. Demand meters record your peak consumption and charge you for the ENTIRE month AS IF you use that much all month. They read every 15 minutes and take a reading, then the company charges you for the entire month as if you used power at the highest reading, very crooked . Very wrong, and I would Hate to be the power companys or the gov’t at judgement day!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMEN>

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21469 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:40:17 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21469 [...] Elster, one of the five biggest meter makers, has been working with the Salt River Project, which won $56.86 million to speed up its smart meter [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21468 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:14:02 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21468 [...] the largest investment yet in building this smart grid. He has called for <a href=”http://earth2tech.com/2009/03/31/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/ “>40 million smart meters</a>, the building block of the grid, to be installed. The [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21467 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:41:06 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21467 [...] is relatively new to the smart meter space, but has its massive engineering resources to develop a technically sophisticated meter. Silver [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21466 Wed, 20 May 2009 06:12:48 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21466 [...] new utility friends, Google says it is working with smart meter maker Itron, which is one of the leaders in terms of market share. That’s a partnership that will benefit them both. Itron needs help innovating on the [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21465 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:37:35 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21465 I believe it will be difficult to predict the “winner” in the case of smart meters. Where there is a winner there has to be a loser and the big loser will be the consumer. These meters may decrease the “instaneous” demand but not the total demand. It’s difficult to get people to change their “habits” but when the utilities begin to get into one’s pocketbook, one will change. The amount of change will be directly proportional to the increase in one’s utility bill.

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21464 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:23:36 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21464 [...] company is going to emerge as the leading maker of “smart meters”? G.E. is one player in the field, although a bit of a dark horse. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-will-make-good-in-the-smart-meter-rollout/#comment-21463 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:52:53 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27449#comment-21463 Good writeup. But you need to consider that the meter and the communications components that go with the meter (making a so-called “smart meter”) are often from different vendors, though this is increasingly being consolidated. One up-start on communications front is Silver Spring Networks, who has the PG&E contract. Their silcon valley hype may outweigh their heft, but they’re certainly among the leaders.

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