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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.

Advanced Metering

  • 8.3M Smart Meters and Counting in U.S.

    Research firm Parks Associates says 8.3 million smart electric meters have been installed at U.S. residences to date – a little more than 6 percent of the total, up from about 4.7 at the end of last year.

    Advanced Metering

    Jeff St. John July 17, 2009

  • Solar, Smart Grid Advocates: Thanks for Passing the Climate Change Bill

    The House passed the legislation that contains provisions that could spur growth in solar and smart grid deployment. But homebuilders and some environmental groups aren't pleased. The controversial bill faces a tough fight in the Senate. 

    Policy

    Ucilia Wang June 26, 2009

  • Energy Efficiency: Good Idea, Not Enough Believers

    The CEOs of Duke Energy and San Diego Gas & Electric say not enough is done to promote energy efficiency despites a lot of discussion between policy makers and the utility industry.

    Grid

    Ucilia Wang June 24, 2009

  • The Elusive Smart Meter-Demand Response Combo

    Smart meter maker Itron and demand response provider Comverge have linked technologies to bring home energy management via smart meter networks. It's the end goal of many deployments.

    Advanced Metering

    Jeff St. John June 24, 2009

  • Smart Meter Security: A Work in Progress

    Itron has an agreement with Idaho National Laboratory to assess its systems vulnerabilities and make it more secure from hackers or disgruntled employees. It's a challenge being tackled across the realm of smart grid projects, experts say.

    Advanced Metering

    Jeff St. John June 17, 2009

  • This Week in Grid: Changing Execs, Cisco Steps Up and GE Gets Metered

    Smart grid executives make moves. GE and Whirlpool want to put communications modules in their appliances. And Duke taps Cisco to build an end-to-end smart grid architecture.

    Grid

    Frank Smith June 11, 2009

  • GE, Silver Spring Land ComEd Smart Meter Pilot

    The Chicago-based utility will use GE meters with Silver Spring networking technology to test a wide array of consumer-focused services as part of its 141,000 smart meter pilot.

    Advanced Metering

    Jeff St. John June 9, 2009

  • RF Mesh, ZigBee Top North American Utilities’ Smart Meter Wish Lists

    North American utilities are looking to the two wireless technologies for most of their future smart meter deployments, according to research from Chartwell.

    Advanced Metering

    Jeff St. John June 5, 2009

  • Cutting the Cost of Smart Grid in China

    Like other nations, China wants to implement smart grid technologies, so companies have to figure out how to make it cheap.

    Grid

    Michael Kanellos May 28, 2009

  • Top Ten Smart Grid

    What companies are leading the charge toward a smart grid of the future? And, who are the utilities that are taking the lead in giving them a market? We’ve broken down the smart grid sector into a number of broad components areas – smart meter manufacturing, neighborhood-area meter networking and communication, in-home energy management, demand response, meter data management, other smart grid software and services, and the broader role of integrating these areas. 

    Grid

    Jeff St. John April 30, 2009

  • Echelon, T-Mobile Team on Smart Meter Contracts

    Echelon will install cellular radio modules in its smart meters and use T-Mobile's network to carry data to and from utilities.

    Grid

    Jeff St. John April 23, 2009

  • A Million Smart Meters for Miami

    An all-star lineup of vendors is part of an ambitious smart meter plan for Miami and Florida Power and Light.

    Grid

    Michael Kanellos April 20, 2009

  • Silver Spring Heads Down Under

    The smart meter networking and communications provider lands its first deal outside the United States with two Australian utilities planning to install 1 million smart meters by 2013. Different international markets offer different challenges for smart meter deployments.

    Grid

    Jeff St. John April 15, 2009

  • Tropos: WiFi for the Smart Grid

    The long-time municipal WiFi provider is making a push into networking utility smart grid projects, providing the link between neighborhood smart meter networks and utility "backhaul" networks.

    Grid

    Jeff St. John April 14, 2009

  • Massachusetts Mulls Smart Meter Pilots

    National Grid plans 15,000-customer smart meter pilot in Worcester, Mass., but isn't saying which companies are involved. Meanwhile, a 3,000-customer pilot from utility NStar will use Tendril Networks' system for hooking up one-way communicating meters via broadband connections.

    Grid

    Jeff St. John April 1, 2009

  • Google Invests in Silver Spring; Expect More

    The search giant, which has been investing in startups through its philanthropy arm, has created a standard fund that will spend $100 million in 12 months.

    Grid

    Michael Kanellos March 31, 2009

  • GE Offers WiMax Smart Meter Solution

    General Electric will deploy WiMax radios as part of a smart meter project by utility CenterPoint Energy. GE is also partners with Grid Net, which has technology for putting WiMax Internet routers in smart meters. Could this be the first glimpse of a WiMax-enabled smart grid?

    Grid

    Jeff St. John March 30, 2009

  • Integrating the Smart Meter Universe

    SAP is bringing utilities software to integrate smart meter data into their customer service and asset management systems. But it isn't alone in this.

    Grid

    Jeff St. John March 27, 2009

  • Your Electrical Meter Becomes a Cell Phone

    Smart grid vendor SmartSynch will use AT&T's sprawling wireless network as the backbone for its residential smart meters. It paves the way for proliferation, the companies say.

    Grid

    Jeff St. John March 17, 2009

  • Echelon Beefs Up LonWorks

    The 20-year-old maker of building automation system technology and smart meters has released a new version of its building management control technology aimed at making it easier to integrate "energy aware" systems and devices. Could that help it break into the U.S. smart grid market?

    Grid

    Jeff St. John March 3, 2009
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