Are you satisfied with the distribution of the smart grid stimulus grants?
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.
Arcadian has built a 56,000-square-mile wireless smart grid network for Minnesota utilities using licensed spectrum.
It’s one of the biggest IPO starts in green since First Solar in 2006.
The 90-page draft lays out 77 proposed standards for smart grid, and 14 “priority” areas where it will rush standards development.
The arm of defense contractor BAE Systems is working with San Diego Gas & Electric on a $212 million project to build a regional microgrid – a potential model for similar projects elsewhere.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu briefed an international audience on America’s broad-ranging smart grid goals. Next up is a new round of federal smart grid standards due Thursday.
IBM has launched a broad-based smart grid software platform with utility and vendor partners, and Cisco has formed an ‘Ecosystem’ of IP-ready vendors and a utility advisory board.
Ambient will supply communications gear for Duke’s multi-million smart meter deployments. It’s just one of a number of confirmed and unconfirmed smart grid partners working with the country’s third-largest utility.
Austin Energy wants $123 million for itself and an affiliated nonprofit group for smart grid projects, and Oncor wants $3.5 million for transmission line monitoring.
Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon are bringing their cybersecurity expertise to smart grid projects. With utilities under the gun to meet new smart grid security rules, that could be a lucrative market.
PG&E has joined a short list of utilities looking to Cisco to assist its smart grid projects, including an $85 million plan to install energy management systems in about 75,000 businesses.
The utility wants $25 million in smart grid stimulus funds to build a compressed air energy storage system. While it’s one of the most efficient ways to store power on the grid, it also has some severe limitations.
The utility wants about $60 million in smart grid grants for two ambitious demonstration projects involving GE, Cisco, SunPower, IBM and Boeing. It also wants A123 to build the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery to help manage wind power.
The Chicago chapter of the country’s premier building owners trade group is the only non-utility asking for federal smart grid stimulus funds. Does it stand a chance?
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.
As existing smart grid sub-markets become tougher places for upstarts to enter the market, don’t be surprised to see VCs flocking to an emerging application segment of the grid – “The Soft Grid,” as GTM Research is defining it.
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.
Sprint already has about 100 utility customers using its iDEN and CDMA networks for linking smart grid devices. Now it’s announcing that it has broader ambitions in the space – including a push for WiMax in smart grid.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is the first of California’s big three investor-owned utilities to publicize its request for part of $3.4 billion in federal smart grid stimulus grants.
Comverge also has boosted its residential contracts, which differentiate it from its competitors in the business of helping utilities shave peak power demand.
Duke Energy, National Grid, NStar, PSE&G, Dominion Virginia, PECO, FirstEnergy and Alliant are among utilities announcing smart grid stimulus grant applications before Thursday’s deadline.