How demand response cuts wholesale power costs
Following several years of development, demand response has now started transforming wholesale markets — and reducing costs for ratepayers.
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Following several years of development, demand response has now started transforming wholesale markets — and reducing costs for ratepayers.
Realizing full benefits from a smart grid ultimately means controlling devices in customers’ homes, businesses, and other facilities. But who should exercise that control, and how?
eMeter’s Chief Regulator Officer Chris King gives us a quick overview of what we need to know about smart grid standards, what standards are important and what we can look forward to.
Maui is set to become a smart grid showcase, courtesy of Japanese giants like Hitachi, Sharp and Hewlett-Packard Japan. These companies are among the partners that signed on to a long-range project announced Tuesday, aimed at integrating the Hawaiian Island’s renewable power and plug-in vehicles to come.
Can the cloud handle the energy and smart meter data of an entire country? The U.K. is working on several nationwide smart meter data clearinghouse projects that could be a start, and companies like IBM are targeting the market.
Deregulated energy markets, with companies competing with one another for customers, could be great places to test how technologies and services engage customers. Whether that will lead to energy savings is less clear, however.
For months, Verizon has seemed to be trailing rival AT&T on smart grid initiatives. Not anymore, if news from the smart grid conference Distributech in San Diego this week is any indicator, including an announcement to offer a cloud-based smart meter management service with eMeter.
Now that Netflix has an app on the iPad and the iPhone, it could make a push into the Android ecosystem based on job postings that have cropped up. An Android app could expand Netflix’s audience base even further, especially on new Android-based tablets.
The smart grid investing gurus at Foundation Capital and the venture firm that helped launch the likes of Cisco (s CSCO) and Google (s GOOG) — Sequoia Capital — have pumped more money into smart meter software maker eMeter.
Every home and business should have access to “timely, useful and actionable” energy information, said a group of close to 50 companies — including Google, Silicon Valley venture firms, and smart grid startups — in a letter addressed to President Obama on Monday.
Utilities, tech vendors and trade groups like the Grid Wise Alliance have openly been complaining that it’s taking too long for the…
A decade-old software firm called Ecologic Analytics has been quietly cleaning up when it comes to the software link that connects smart…
On the final morning of the Copenhagen climate talks, as world leaders have but a few hours left to reach some kind…
When the UK electricity market was deregulated in the late 1990’s, the country established a common data network service (called the Data…
The week that I write a post about how there’s a bubble growing in the home energy management space, there’s a subsequent…