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How Carbon Reduction and Smart Grid Work Together

How Carbon Reduction and Smart Grid Work Together

Jeff St. John: April 9, 2013

Big batteries, home energy controls, and grid controls for the oil and gas industries

How Broadband May Help Roll Out the Rural Smart Grid

How Broadband May Help Roll Out the Rural Smart Grid

Jeff St. John: April 3, 2013

Emerson and partners pilot a home-to-cloud-to-utility energy platform in Georgia.

ZigBee’s IPv6-Compatible Spec Goes Live

ZigBee’s IPv6-Compatible Spec Goes Live

Jeff St. John: April 2, 2013

How energy, SEP 2.0 have driven ZigBee into the IP fold

Utilities to the Cloud: First, Make It Rain

Utilities to the Cloud: First, Make It Rain

Jeff St. John: March 22, 2013

Experts at TNG 2013 lay out the case for cloud computing for the smart grid.

AutoGrid, Austin Energy and the ARPA-E Home Energy Challenge

AutoGrid, Austin Energy and the ARPA-E Home Energy Challenge

Jeff St. John: February 26, 2013

The ARPA-E-backed startup wants to connect multiple residential energy technologies, business models to meet real-time grid needs.

Software Plots How Much Homeowners Can Save on Energy Retrofits

Software Plots How Much Homeowners Can Save on Energy Retrofits

Jeff St. John: February 21, 2013

Can data analysis predict and optimize returns on home energy efficiency investments?

The ‘Utility-Agnostic’ Home Energy Platform?

The ‘Utility-Agnostic’ Home Energy Platform?

Jeff St. John: February 18, 2013

MyEnergy claims it has the “richest” energy platform. How will it stack up with similar companies already working with utilities?

A New Standard for the Smart-Grid-Ready Home Appliance

A New Standard for the Smart-Grid-Ready Home Appliance

Jeff St. John: February 11, 2013

The slow path toward ubiquitous, modular smart grid connectivity for water heaters, AC units and other big home energy loads

Smart Grid M&A Alert: Consert Bought by Toshiba’s Landis+Gyr

Smart Grid M&A Alert: Consert Bought by Toshiba’s Landis+Gyr

Jeff St. John: February 8, 2013

The residential power dispatch and control startup joins the smart grid startup acquisition train—but at what return to investors?

The Smart Grid Consumer State of the Union

The Smart Grid Consumer State of the Union

Jeff St. John: January 28, 2013

The Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative cites success stories in the emerging realm of connecting utilities to their customers.

Cisco Dives Into Home Energy Management With AT&T

Cisco Dives Into Home Energy Management With AT&T

Jeff St. John: January 7, 2013

Cisco’s multi-communications control panel to connect AT&T Digital Life home automation service

Opening the German Smart Meter Market

Opening the German Smart Meter Market

Jeff St. John: December 6, 2012

Itron and Deutsche Telekom look to Germany’s slow-growing and complicated, yet potentially massive, smart meter market.

Onzo Sells Hardware to SSE, Focuses on Analytics

Onzo Sells Hardware to SSE, Focuses on Analytics

Katherine Tweed: November 28, 2012

The U.K. home energy firm drops its hardware to play in the larger world of energy big data.

The Smart Meter-Home Security Connection

The Smart Meter-Home Security Connection

Jeff St. John: November 28, 2012

Southern California Edison and ADT Pulse offer customers real-time smart meter data. Will customers sign up?

The Smart-Meter-to-Home Retail Sales Channel Goes Live in SoCal

The Smart-Meter-to-Home Retail Sales Channel Goes Live in SoCal

Jeff St. John: November 13, 2012

Will hefty rebates from Southern California Edison drive sales into the nascent HAN market?