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ComEd Says Smart Grid Created 2700 Jobs in Illinois

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:14:04 +0000

ComEd says that work related to the Smart Grid program created nearly 2,700 full-time equivalent jobs in the first quarter of 2013. These include nearly 900 direct full-time equivalent jobs at the utility and its contractors as submitted in a report to …

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ComEd Says Smart Grid Created 2700 Jobs in Illinois

IEC's latest update to smart grid standard to support non english labels also

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:14:04 +0000

Toshiba Corporation said renowned standards organization IEC has endorsed a committee draft for vote (CDV) of an International Standard, proposed by Toshiba supporting higher interoperability among subsystems in electricity transmission and …

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IEC's latest update to smart grid standard to support non english labels also

New GridSTAR Center Smart Grid Research Energy Innovation

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:14:04 +0000

Part of this microgrid in the Clean Energy Campus area will be a highly-monitored subgrid being designed for the plug-and-play testing of smart grid components and system configurations,” working along with the PJM Interconnection to innovate …

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New GridSTAR Center Smart Grid Research Energy Innovation

iDirect Smart Grid Going Places WIth Satellites Analysis Reports

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:14:04 +0000

[SatNews] The results are in… 60 percent of leading utilities use satellite for smart grid connectivity to support SCADA, telemetry, voice and backhaul. More importantly, these companies rated satellite as a top choice for deploying ubiquitous …

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iDirect Smart Grid Going Places WIth Satellites Analysis Reports

Illinois Senate overrides smart grid veto Crain's Chicago Business

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:35:31 +0000

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E ON chooses TOA Technologies' ETAdirect to manage smart meter roll out to

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:24:37 +0000

LONDON and CLEVELAND, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — When E.ON, one of the UK's leading power and gas companies, considered its upcoming smart meter roll-out, it established a goal to successfully replace eight million meters by 2020.

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E ON chooses TOA Technologies' ETAdirect to manage smart meter roll out to

Marshfield Utilities to replace electric water meters

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:24:37 +0000

Listening to her speak at the Apartment Association meeting about smart meters raised some red flags, said Dennis Boucher, a Marshfield apartment manager. Rather than one smart meter on a house, each apartment in a complex would have a new meter …

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Marshfield Utilities to replace electric water meters

Smart grid plan hits a roadblock

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:31:17 +0000

A smart grid is an “intelligent” electricity distribution network that uses two-way communications, advanced sensors, and specialized computers that can help reduce customers' energy use, and facilitate greater reliability, efficiency and availability …

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Smart grid plan hits a roadblock

Illinois Senate Overrides 'Smart Grid' Veto WIFR com

Tom Gardner — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:12:05 +0000

The Senate has again approved a plan to address so-called Smart Grid technology over the objection of Gov. Pat Quinn. WIFR – News – Headlines

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Illinois Senate Overrides 'Smart Grid' Veto WIFR com

Illinois Senate overrides 'Smart Grid' veto

Tom Gardner — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:58:09 +0000

The Senate has again approved a plan to address so-called Smart Grid technology over the objection of Gov. Pat Quinn. Senators voted 44-11 Tuesday to override Quinn's veto earlier this month. Quinn claimed the bill undermined oversight and would force …

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Illinois Senate overrides 'Smart Grid' veto

GWP smart meter fix almost done

Tom Gardner — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:16:06 +0000

Since the massive rollout of roughly 120,000 digital utility meters that began in 2010, Glendale Water & Power officials now have just 53 of them to tweak, down from 919 in September of last year. The drop comes about five months after the utility …

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GWP smart meter fix almost done

AT&T Supplies Smart Meter Solution for Co Op

Tom Gardner — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:16:06 +0000

AT&T Supplies Smart Meter Solution for Co-Op · REpower Wins German Community Wind Farm Projects · Europe Wasting Billion by Not Choosing Best Renewable Sites · SMEs Want Simplified Energy Contracts · NetComm Wireless Selected for Australia …

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AT&T Supplies Smart Meter Solution for Co Op

NetComm Wireless Selected for Australia Smart Meter Deployment Smart Meters

Tom Gardner — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:16:06 +0000

NetComm designed the 3G communications card to interoperate with SP AusNet's preferred smart meter provider, Landis+Gyr. According to Machina Research, of the 1.5 billion M2M connections expected to exist in 2020, 99 percent will be smart meters.

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NetComm Wireless Selected for Australia Smart Meter Deployment Smart Meters

Smart Utility Systems Heading to Washington Smart Meters

Tom Gardner — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:19:23 +0000

The United States Federal Smart Grid Task Force has invited Smart Utility Systems (SUS) to make a presentation on its Smart Customer Mobile in Washington D.C.. Ken Roberts, SUS Director of Sales and Marketing and Lance Brown, SUS VP of Customer …

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Smart Utility Systems Heading to Washington Smart Meters

The Smart Meter Stimulus Cash to Integration Equation

Tom Gardner — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:19:23 +0000

We all know that the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has handed out billions of dollars to smart grid projects around the country, with smart meters, or advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployments, getting the biggest share.

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The Smart Meter Stimulus Cash to Integration Equation