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AlertMe Raises £8M for Home Energy Management

The Cambridge, U.K.-based startup is seeking to bring its energy management devices into homes as an add-on to its home security systems – a strategy shared by others in the field.

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  • PG&E’s Bakersfield Problem: Getting the Customer on Board

    Pacific Gas & Electric could offer early lessons over how to prevent customer backlash against smart grid spending.

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    Jeff St. John November 20, 2009

  • PG&E Sued Over Smart Meters, Slows Down Bakersfield Deployment

    Pacific Gas & Electric denies a lawsuit’s claims that smart meters are overcharging customers in Bakersfield. Still, it has slowed down smart meter deployments in the city.

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    Jeff St. John November 11, 2009

  • Landis+Gyr Raises $100M

    The big European smart meter maker has raised $100 million to fuel growth, particularly in the United States.

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    Jeff St. John November 6, 2009

  • Smart Grid Roundup: The Future of the Grid

    Silver Spring and Grid Net are fighting for the future of the grid. Utilities are revamping their grids for solar. And more.

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    Frank Smith November 4, 2009

  • Smart Grid: What a Week That Was

    The Obama administration unfurled $3.4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds, among other news.

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    Michael Kanellos October 30, 2009

  • GE, Grid Net Win WiMax Smart Grid Project in Australia

    General Electric and Grid Net have landed the first big WiMax smart meter deployment with utility SP AusNet in Australia. Could more WiMax smart meters be on the horizon?

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    Jeff St. John October 22, 2009

  • Iberdrola Looks to Prime PLC Standard

    The Spanish utility appears to be set on a powerline carrier standard for the 18 million smart meters it’s required to deploy in the coming years.

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    Jeff St. John October 12, 2009

  • Alcatel-Lucent Expands Smart Meter Trials

    The French networking company is in smart meter trials in Germany and Austria, and is linking meters through partners including Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Germany.

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    Jeff St. John October 7, 2009

  • Freescale’s Smart Meter on a Chip

    Freescale Semiconductor has a new chipset that incorporates all the primary functions of a smart meter. Similar ‘systems-on-a-chip’ have seen mixed success to date.

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    Jeff St. John October 6, 2009

  • GE Dives Into Korean Smart Meter Market With NURI Telecom

    General Electric and the Korean telecom want to bring about 18 million smart meters to South Korea in the next five years. They will have to convince national utility KEPCO that it’s worth the cost.

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    Jeff St. John September 21, 2009

  • Watteco Launches PLC Tech, Eyes EDF Smart Meter Plans

    The French maker of power line communications chips says its technology is more versatile and uses less power than rivals. Could French utility EDF, which is an investor, also become a customer?

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    Jeff St. John September 17, 2009

  • Echelon Expands Euro Smart Meter Biz

    Echelon’s 500,000-home contract with utility Fortum in Finland expands its power line carrier technology in the European smart metering field.

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    Jeff St. John August 28, 2009

  • Mississippi Goes It Alone With Smart Meter Network

    The state wants to install about 1,500 smart meters at state buildings using federal stimulus funds, which may represent a new, if smaller, market beyond utilities for smart meter vendors like Jackson, Miss.-based SmartSynch.

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    Jeff St. John August 27, 2009

  • What the DOE Wants in Smart Grid Grant Applications

    Given the current beltway brouhaha about whether the economy needs another multi-hundred billion dollar fiscal boost, the DOE will likely fund most of the $3.4 billion in SGIG grants sooner, not later.

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    John Kelley August 20, 2009

  • LA’s Utility Seeks $200M Smart Grid Stimulus Grant

    The LADWP seeks $200 million in stimulus funds for a smart grid project, according to city documents. While details have yet to emerge, the city has said it likes public cellular networks for smart grid.

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    Jeff St. John August 18, 2009

  • Feds: Start Applying for 30% Tax Credit for Clean Energy Manufacturing

    The tax credit program is capped at $2.3 billion and is the latest of a series of financial aid initiatives aimed at boosting renewable energy and other greentech manufacturing and job creation.

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    Ucilia Wang August 13, 2009

  • Echelon Expands Smart Meter Contract With Duke Energy

    The open-ended contract calls for $15.8 million in Echelon’s smart meters, but could expand to a $150 million deal for Duke Energy’s 1.5-million smart meter deployment plans in Ohio and Indiana.

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    Jeff St. John August 10, 2009

  • Comverge’s Home Demand Response: Pagers First, Then Smart Meters

    Comverge has two deals with utilities that want it to turn down home energy use, first with pager networks and then with smart meters. How will that model compete with emerging alternatives?

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    Jeff St. John July 31, 2009

  • Defining an End-to-End Smart Grid

    As predicted, 2009 has become a banner year for smart grid, but until now the term has yet to be fully defined.

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    David J. Leeds July 23, 2009

  • eMeter Lands $32M for Smart Meter Data, Home Energy Software

    The maker of meter data management software – and a newly launched web interface for home energy management – has received $32 million from Sequoia Capital and Foundation Capital.

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    Jeff St. John July 22, 2009
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