Silver Spring Networks, one of the largest smart grid infrastructure firms, has raised another massive round of funding to keep on expanding. This morning the 7-year-old Redwood City, Calif.-based company announced that it has raised $100 million in equity funding, bringing the company’s total funds raised […] Read more »
One of the largest smart grid infrastructure players and one of the largest U.S. phone companies are linking up. AT&T and Silver Spring Networks, a 7-year-old company that sells smart grid networking gear to utilities, have announced a deal this morning by which Silver Spring will […] Read more »
That whole PG&E smart meter debacle — the one where customers complained about higher rates in Bakersfield after the California utility installed smart meters in their homes — is being sent out to third party independent contractors for testing. Interested in being the ones to test […] Read more »
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Is it “the Rosetta Stone of the smart grid?” Well, that’s a tall order, but smart grid network company SmartSynch says it’s launching a “universal” router for the smart grid, dubbed GridRouter, that can connect various networks, products and languages to help create an open ecosystem […] Read more »
Now that large, established players — Silver Spring Networks and Cisco (CSCO) — are building out the smart grid network, the next area for innovation will be the applications, software and services designed to run on top of the network. That’s a trend we’ve covered, and […] Read more »
In a long speech on a variety of greentech subjects — ranging from renewable energy technology to prospects for the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen to the U.S. Senate’s slow pace on the climate bill — former Vice President and current Kleiner Perkins partner Al Gore […] Read more »
Cisco has made a ton of noise in the smart grid space — CEO John Chambers told the Wall Street Journal this year that the company had an unlimited budget for smart grid initiatives — but it’s been unclear what exactly Cisco would be selling to […] Read more »
At VentureBeat’s GreenBeat conference last night, Kleiner Perkins leader John Doerr touched on a lot of the themes he usually does: the necessity of putting a price on carbon, greentech as “the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century,” and the smart grid being a massive […] Read more »
You’d almost have to have been sleeping under a rock to not have caught word of the other Droid handset coming to Verizon, the HTC Droid Eris. Everybody outside of Verizon, HTC and Google has been talking up the Eris for a few weeks. The three […] Read more »
Apple has released its Form 10-K (PDF) for the fiscal year 2009, the annual report providing a summary of the company’s performance. A number of interesting details can be found within the long and tedious document, but the biggest news is the increasing importance of the […] Read more »
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In a couple months the $3.4 billion in stimulus funds for smart grid projects will be doled out to about 100 utilities and cities. But the tech vendors — smart meter makers, network software developers, wireless sensor gear companies — will see those funds flow down […] Read more »
It’s been a long, long time coming, but according to RIM, the BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac will be available today. Mac owners have always relied on third-party solutions for syncing their BlackBerries up to the Mac, but no longer. BlackBerry Desktop Software, formerly known as […] Read more »
While everyone else has been waiting for Google Wave invites today, I’ve been pining for my custom license plate. It just arrived, although I haven’t yet attached it to the car. It looks pretty good on my MacBook, but it just kills productivity by blocking the […] Read more »
The smart grid might be the Megan Fox of cleantech right now (hot), but will venture-backed smart grid startups be able to deliver the type of returns that VCs commonly like (somewhere around 10 times their investment)? Not really, suggested venture capitalist Vinod Khosla at the […] Read more »
It’s officially a trend: smart grid companies building or buying software that will manage energy consumption within the home. This morning smart grid networking company Silver Spring Networks announced that it plans to buy Greenbox Technology, a 2-year-old startup founded by the creators of the well-known […] Read more »
The idea behind vertically integrated companies is that each of its subsidiaries produces a part of the value-chain that, when connected together, delivers a stronger force. Think of steel barons owning mines, mills and railways, or American Apparel controlling production, distribution and marketing. For the smart […] Read more »
It’s been a rough year for file-sharing sites, legally speaking. Today a Dutch court ordered Mininova to remove all torrents of copyrighted works in the next three months or pay up to $7.16 million in fines. Copyright holder group Stichting Brein had sued Mininova for inciting […] Read more »
One of the bigger players in the smart grid networking space, Silver Spring Networks, will hit profitability in the third quarter of this year, the company’s CEO Scott Lang tells Bloomberg. The end of the third quarter is about a month and a half away, and […] Read more »
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is rethinking his earlier disdain for software as a service and all things cloud, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal. Maybe a dismal economy and a drop in Oracle sales are forcing him to change his position. The […] Read more »
California’s capital, Sacramento, has one of the most progressive of the smaller utilities in the U.S.: the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). For example, SMUD says it expects to be the first utility to meet the state clean power mandate, and says it will exceed California’s […] Read more »
Silver Spring Networks and GE have charmed another utility for a smart meter pilot. Chicago-based utility Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) last week filed for regulatory approval of a pilot with 141,000 smart meters that will involve 23 different combinations of consumer-focused features and technologies for energy […] Read more »
Wireless networking gets all the love in today’s mobile world, but inside the home, wires will still play a key role in delivering entertainment and other content. Your set-top box may sport an Ethernet port, but it still connects to the wall via coaxial cable. Wires […] Read more »
Initial public offerings as of late have been about as common as celebratory banquets for Wall Street bankers. Last week, however, after some nine months of an IPO drought, two venture-backed startups, software maker SolarWinds and online restaurant reservation system OpenTable, broke the mold and went […] Read more »
When you’re a networking giant, it’s probably a good idea to develop a strategy for participating in the biggest network build-out of the decade. This morning, Cisco is doing just that, with an announcement of its game plan for becoming a major player in the smart […] Read more »
Kara Swisher reported earlier today that Tellme founder Mike McCue is leaving Microsoft at the end of June 2009. His Tellme co-founder, Angus Davis, is leaving the company as well. He sent out an email to his friends and family, shortly after announcing the news to […] Read more »
The UK government today unveiled a plan to outfit most of the homes and small businesses in England, Scotland, and Wales with smart meters by the end of 2020. The plan, which could cost an estimated £8.11 billion ($12.3 billion) and involve some 50 million gas […] Read more »
Over the past few months many execs at tech startups, utilities and analyst firms have asked me: Why is Silver Spring Networks getting so much attention? The startup, which has raised over $150 million in funding and adds communications intelligence to the power grid, has managed […] Read more »
A good portion of the intelligence that will be added to the upcoming smart grid will be wireless — radios, sensors and access points strategically placed throughout the power grid and on our homes that can help manage energy consumption and distribution. Increasingly, utilities and companies […] Read more »
We are currently at an inflection point with regard to smart grid upgrades. For the first time, the smart grid movement has the backing of the U.S. government and increasing buy-in from state public utility commissions; utilities themselves are beginning to aggressively push smart meter ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Robert Rapier, energy blogger and engineering director for Accsys Technologies, has been poring over an interview that Vinod Khosla did recently with Forbes journalist Elizabeth Corcoran at the Milken Institute (Paul Kedrosky’s video clip here). Khosla and Rapier have a long history of arguing over the […] Read more »
AdMob shares its monthly smartphone data today, and the numbers provide some deeper insight into trends we’ve seen recently. I was sure that the Android Marketplace’s relatively slow pace would weigh down the growth rate of T-Mobile’s G1, but as they say: the numbers don’t lie. […] Read more »
The announcement this week that Miami could soon be home to the nation’s largest smart grid project brought together some of the biggest companies in the space, GE and Cisco; one of its most promising startups, Silver Spring Networks; and the utility arm of the nation’s […] Read more »
The smart grid is being touted as the Swiss army knife of cleantech — adding energy efficiency to the power grid, saving consumers money on energy bills, and creating jobs. That’s the way Florida utility FPL Group sees it, and today FPL, Cisco, GE, Silver Spring […] Read more »
Much of the news these days about the smart grid buildout comes from the country’s large investor-owned utilities, like California’s Pacific Gas & Electric, which tend to be centered around major metropolitan areas. But Washington, D.C.-based Great American Broadband is betting that electric cooperatives — smaller, […] Read more »
An audience favorite at our Green:Net conference was the Power Grid 2.0 panel, where executives from utilities, startups and technology providers hashed out what the next generation of the electricity grid would need to look like. Panelists included: Andrew Tang, senior director of Smart Energy Web […] Read more »
We need a two-way communication between our utilities and our homes that can be delivered via a smart grid, according to a panel of experts speaking today at the Green:Net conference today in San Francisco. Andrew Tang of PG&E, highlighted the issue facing the utilities by […] Read more »
OK, fans of e-books. How many times have you wanted to purchase a digital title but weren’t sure you were getting the best deal? Obviously, the content format plays a part in your decision making process, but the price might have something to do with it […] Read more »
A mystery notebook-like little device spied at Lenovo’s offices in China has surfaced, along with some very intriguing photos on the company’s photo stream. The “Pocket Yoga” is barely bigger than a little keyboard yet seems to pack in a trackstick and touchscreen. There are no […] Read more »
Smart grid standards proposed in the House stimulus bill could snatch business away from some of the largest incumbent meter providers — perhaps even put them out of business — while virtually guaranteeing utility contracts for newer smart grid companies that support the computing standard Internet […] Read more »
Getting tired of the smart grid yet? Well, folks, GE’s Super Bowl ad was just the beginning, and with the DistribuTech conference kicking off this morning, get ready for the floodgates to open. In addition to news from these startups, Silver Spring Networks, the so-called Cisco […] Read more »
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