After weeks of testimony, Baltimore Gas & Electric has gotten itself back into the good graces of Maryland state regulators. The utility announced Monday that the Maryland PUC approved the redrawn project on Friday, meaning BG&E won’t have to return a $200 million DOE stimulus grant. Read more »
The first wireless and web-connected gadget for Microsoft-Hohm is now available in the form of an electric meter sensor, a wireless LCD monitor and a Wi-Fi adapter. With this combo, I’m able to track my electric usage, determine my home’s carbon footprint and get green recommendations. Read more »
Google today is unveiling a rewritten Google Docs, tweaked to present information in real time as well as to enable better syncing across browsers — the goal being to persuade CIOs that instead of upgrading to Microsoft Office 2010 they should switch to Google Docs. Read more »
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There’s good news to report about the public’s perceptions of the smart grid . . . and then there’s bad news. GE’s take on perceptions about the smart grid: Read more »
Worries over the installation of smart meters isn’t just happening in select cities in the U.S. Last week the government for the Australian state of Victoria declared a moratorium on its plan to roll out 2.5 million smart meters to residents and businesses. Read more »
According to a recent Harris Interactive poll, 68 percent of Americans haven’t even heard of the smart grid. And without a sense of how the smart grid and an ecosystem of devices, apps and services help consumers save money on electricity, the whole concept remains an abstraction. The challenge therefore is not merely to prepare consumers for the smart grid’s arrival, but to make the wait unbearable. Read more »
A lot of the interest in the smart grid industry tends to swirl around consumers and home energy management. It can be fun to picture consumers one day buying gadgets at big box retailers that will let them micromanage their home heating, cooling and lighting, and ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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 »
The smart grid buildout could be one of the largest creators of wealth in the decade, smart grid analyst Jesse Berst has said. The installation of more than 250 million smart meters — electricity meters that provide real-time information about energy consumption and enable two-way communication […] Read more »
Just two months ago, Ford Motor launched a trial of a software system meant to enable communication between its plug-in vehicles and the power grid, by way of smart meters and a Zigbee wireless connection. At the time, Ford’s Nancy Gioia, recently named director of Ford […] Read more »
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While I was edumacating attendees of our “Biggest Opportunities of the Smart Grid” webinar this morning (for subscribers to GigaOM Pro), I learned a great deal from Pike Research analyst Clint Wheelock, who gave an overview of the market on the call. Most interesting to me […] Read more »
Tgethr aspires to replace listservs, Google Groups and Yahoo Groups as a way of managing email groups. It scores over Convos (which I recently wrote about) with its very easy setup, useful help and simple web interface, although it doesn’t have some of Convos’ additional features. […] Read more »
We’d like to say thanks to this month’s WebWorkerDaily sponsors: Rackspace: Experience fanatical support. FreshBooks: Look Professional with FreshBooks. Read more »
I read e-books as much as anyone on the planet. It is not unusual for me to page through three or four of them a week, using an assortment of different gadgets to read them. I use two different reading programs to do this, both Kindle […] Read more »
Snow Leopard’s release is just around the corner, so here are some quick and easy steps to make sure that you are ready to upgrade. Turn On Time Machine If you haven’t already, now is a great time to turn on the Time Machine built in […] Read more »
Semiconductor companies increasingly are positioning themselves to take advantage of the growing business opportunities surrounding energy efficiency. Teridian Semiconductor is one of them, and today the Irvine, Calif.-based firm launched a chip that can be used to measure with extreme accuracy the electricity use of data […] 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 »
Utilities and meter makers are quick to point out how smart meters can reduce consumers’ energy bills, but the motivation behind rolling out smart meters isn’t necessarily first and foremost to help the consumer: It’s to help the utility, and as a result can be a […] 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 »
When we asked you to imagine the damage Internet viruses and worms could do to the critical infrastructure of the power grid, it wasn’t an exercise in futility — it’s already happening. This morning the Wall Street Journal reports that hacker spies from countries like China […] Read more »
It might be up for debate whether smart meters — electricity meters that provide real-time information about energy consumption and enable two-way communication between a utility and a consumer — will solve the U.S. power problem. But regardless, over the next couple of years an increasing […] Read more »
Subodh Nayar is the Chief Operations Officer of Powerline Telco Empowering consumers with actionable intelligence about their power will not be the outcome of the deployment of smart meters. Rather, it will be exactly what the utilities intend for it to be: a cost-effective way to […] Read more »
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Google shook up the smart meter industry this month by announcing it’s developing a web-based energy data tool called PowerMeter. Energy info should be free, easy to read and owned by you — the consumer — says Google. But let’s face it, Google is new at […] Read more »
The smart grid might have launched into the mainstream lexicon recently with GE’s super bowl ad and funding included in the current stimulus package, but the budding industry could falter out of the gate in this economic climate. Smart grid companies are showing some concern over […] Read more »
The Minutes for today show my ergonomic desktop setup that has made a world of difference in having a happy back, neck and shoulders. I show the arrangement of the display in conjunction with the MacBook and even give a tour of the Lapworks Aluminum Laptop […] Read more »
Call it World of Greencraft: At a recent climate change conference at sponsored by Stanford University, Byron Reeves, a professor there, proposed an unlikely marriage of online gaming and consumer smart meters. Instead of just displaying incremental changes in energy consumption on the homeowner’s PC as […] Read more »
It’ll take more than just money to cut energy use and carbon dioxide emissions in the Canadian commercial building sector, according to a new report, which says significant policy changes are needed as well. But with those changes, the country’s commercial building sector could help Canada […] Read more »
UPDATED Steven Chu established himself as a well-known scientist and administrator years ago, running the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and winning a Nobel Prize. He has called for urgent action on climate change and (now famously) described coal as his “worst nightmare,” so cheers from environmental […] Read more »
The Aloha State will be getting a smart grid under a new contract announced today between Hawaiian Electric and Sensus Metering Systems. Sensus said that Hawaiian Electric, which provides electricity for 95 percent of Hawaii’s residents, plans to install Sensus FlexNet smart meters for 430,000 residential […] Read more »
Warner Premiere, a digital content production division at Warner Bros., will team up with director Bryan Singer’s (The Usual Suspects) production company, Bad Hat Harry Productions, to create the new live-action sci-fi series H+. The Hollywood Reporter writes that John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso will […] Read more »
UPDATED At the Itron Users’ Conference in Dallas on Tuesday, Tendril and Itron announced a networking solution that will enable two-way communication between utilities and residential customers’ energy-using devices using the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) that utilities are working to install. By integrating Tendril’s Residential Energy […] Read more »
The deal represents about half of the 5 million smart meters PG&E plans to install throughout Northern and Central California. Read more »
When we first heard that California utility Southern California Edison was applying for a patent on smart meters, we were a bit concerned. Patent wars in the mobile and broadband industries have played a big a part in delaying innovation. But the utility seems to have […] Read more »
As most of you know, this summer we have been working hard to put together our next-generation mobile conference Mobilize 08, which will look at the emergence of new devices and their impact on mobile data — in particular the opportunities they present for entrepreneurs. Unlike […] Read more »
…or so wrote Marc Andreessen, on his blog Monday. Pundits have bemoaned the impact that Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo will have on Silicon Valley entrepreneurship: In eliminating a “big startup acquirer,” Redmond is slamming shut one, and possibly two, big windows for “VC-funded exits.” You’ll be […] Read more »
I have been fairly skeptical of the One Laptop Per Child project, not because it’s not a worthy cause, but because it doesn’t factor in the harsh realities of the daily lives of those who Nicholas Negroponte & Co. plan to uplift. Where food, water and […] Read more »
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