The Smart Grid Acquisition Tally . . . So Far

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With ABB’s billion-dollar-acquisition of smart grid software maker Ventyx this week, it got us thinking about how hawt the smart grid merger and acquisition market has been. Here’s a tally of what’s (publicly) gone down over the past couple of years, and how each deal fits into a larger trend. Most of the acquisition prices were undisclosed, and we threw Cisco’s invesment into Grid Net in there for good measure. If we forgot any majors add ‘em in the comments and we’ll update the list:

Acquirer	Acquired	Price, Date	Trend
ABB	Ventyx	“Close to $1 billion,” March 2010	The Swiss electrical gear company adds on smart grid software.
Black & Veatch	Enspiria	Undisclosed, March 2010	The consulting and engineering company beefs up its integration capabilities.
Cisco	Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence	Undisclosed, January 2009	Cisco buys up building and IT networking system.
Cisco (equity investment)	Grid Net	Undisclosed, Sept. 2009	Cisco invests in smart meter maker Grid Net, which has a first product built on WiMAX.
Cooper Industries	Eka Systems	Undisclosed, April 2010	Cooper fold’s Eka’s wireless network product into its automation system.
EnerNOC	Cogent Energy	Undisclosed, Dec. 2009	Demand response player moves into energy efficiency business.
EnerNOC	SmallFoot	Undisclosed, March 2010	The demand response player buys wireless tech for small commercial buildings.
EnerNOC	eQuilibrium Solutions	Undisclosed, June 2009	EnerNOC adds on energy and carbon accounting software.
EnerNOC	MDEnergy	$7.9M, Sept. 2007	EnerNOC buys energy procurement service provider.
EnerNOC	South River Consulting	$4.75M, May 2008	EnerNOC adds on more energy procurement and risk management.
GridPoint	V2Green	Undisclosed, Sept 2008	The smart grid company adds on electric vehicle smart charging.
GridPoint	Lixar SRS	Undisclosed, June 2009	GridPoint moves into home energy management.
GridPoint	ADMMicro	Undisclosed, Nov 2009	The smart grid firm tackles energy from the commercial and industrial sectors.
Honeywell	Akuacom	Undisclosed, May 2010	Building automation giant buys into open source demand response, OpenADR
Siemens	Energy4U	60 percent stake, Aug. 2009	The electrical gear company adds on software for intelligent metering and billing.
Silver Spring Networks	Greenbox	Undisclosed, Sept. 2009	Smart grid network player jumps into home energy management.
SmartSynch	Applied Mesh Technologies	Undisclosed, Nov. 2008	The smart grid network maker buys a competitor to grow.
Trilliant	SkyPilot	Undisclosed, May 2009	Smart grid network maker acquires wireless mesh network maker.

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