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Meter Data Management Market Heats Up

Colorado Springs Utilities Inks Deal with Ecologic Analytics as Part of Home Energy Management Plan

Last week, Meter Data Management player Ecologic Analytics added another major customer to its roster when it announced that it won a deal to manage the data coming from 535,000 gas, electric and water meters for Colorado Springs Utilities .  The Ecologic Analytics MDM is already being used by PG&E in one of the largest smart meter rollouts in North America.  The latest deal adds Springs Utilities to a client roster that also includes Indiana… Read More ›

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Smart Grid AMI Networking: Phase II

Cisco, Arch Rock, Itron, Silver Spring Networks, and the next steps for AMI networking.

I was in a meeting discussing the smart grid market with a few partners and associates at Foundation Capital just under a year ago. In no uncertain terms, they laid out their opinion that the door was closed to any new entrants in the smart grid AMI networking space, that Silver Spring had it "sewn up." Granted, it was a bullish and self-serving opinion, given their backing of Silver Spring Networks, the player that everyone seems to be chasing.… Read More ›

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Execs Depart Silver Spring While World Awaits IPO

Judy Lin, the bigwig Silver Spring lured from Cisco last year, is gone. So is business development EVP John O’Farrell.

It's musical chairs time at Silver Spring Networks.

Judy Lin, who had been serving as the chief product officer at the company, and John O'Farrell, who was executive vice president for business development, have both left the company. O'Farrell has joined Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm. Lin is on vacation and couldn't be reached. The departures were amiable, according to Silver Spring.

Lin came to Silver Spring last year from Cisco,… Read More ›

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Nine Ideas for Changing Behavior, Incentives In Energy

Game theory helped revolutionize telecom. Here are some suggestions for altering the human/kilowatt equation.

Oh, behave!

That could actually serve as the informal motto of the energy industry. Getting individuals and businesses to change the way they interact with their thermostat has become one of the primary goals of utilities, regulators and energy startups. To spur adoption of renewables, incentives have to be properly calibrated.

But what works? One of the most successful companies so far in bringing behavioral dynamics to energy is OPower. It… Read More ›