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Networking giant Cisco could learn a whole lot from its partnership with German utility Yello Strom, which I once called the coolest utility in the world, and which focuses heavily on smart grid consumer hardware and the use of the Internet for the power grid. While […] Read more »

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This week, once again, we heard even more noise from both startups and large firms looking to grab a piece of the smart energy home space. On Wednesday dueling announcements emerged from energy management startup Tendril and conglomerate General Electric about a smart appliance partnership, as […] Read more »

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German utility Yello Strom (which we declared the world’s coolest utility last week) isn’t the only forward-thinking electricity provider to embrace the intertwining of energy and home broadband connections. While Yello Strom might be leading that revolution, energy company TXU Energy, based in Dallas, is also […] Read more »

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Germany’s Yello Strom might be the coolest utility in the world — it’s embraced the intertwining of energy and home broadband connections and is one of the few that manages its smart meter service directly via its customers’ broadband link. That means it can easily offer […] Read more »

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Updated: More than any utility on the planet, Germany’s Yello Strom has embraced the intertwining of energy and home broadband connections. The company manages its smart meter service directly via its customers’ broadband connection; it’s the first European utility to offer its customers access to Google’s […] Read more »

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In the past couple of weeks startups and infotech giants have been racing to launch, or acquire, home energy management tools. Next will come, over the next year, a battle to see which companies can sign up the most utilities. Google, which already announced partnerships with […] Read more »

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Updated: AT&T may have a lot of issues to work out with its data networks, but that’s not stopping the second-largest U.S. cell phone company from using its wireless network to angle for a piece of the smart grid market, which is set to grow rapidly […] Read more »

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