Modernized grid cuts carbon, energy costs

The UK government has set out its vision for how to modernize the energy grid for better efficiency, lower carbon emissions and improved energy security. The "Smart Grid Vision and Routemap" was released today by the Smart Grid Forum, a body created by the Department of Energy and Climate Change and energy industry regulator Ofgem. The report…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 27, 20140Comments

Energy

People prefer ‘smart grids’ with local energy

There are lots of different ways to define the "smart grid," but a new study shows people prefer an approach that promises to reduce their energy expenses and lets households generate a significant amount of their own electricity. "Scenarios for the Development of Smart Grids in the UK," a new report from the UK Energy Research…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 26, 20140Comments

Investment

Tampering scandal hits Malta’s smart-grid ambitions

Malta's smart-grid ambitions are taking a hit in light of an emerging scandal over what appears to be systematic tampering with smart meters. The Malta Independent today reported that a ninth employee of the Enemalta utility has been suspended on suspicions of meter tampering. The first eight employees were suspended last week. Malta began planning for a…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 20, 20140Comments

Energy

Tiny island in Azores moves to greener, smarter microgrid

When it comes to renewable energy, too much of a good thing has in the past been a problem. Germany, for example, has brought online a massive capacity for wind and solar power. On especially windy or sunny days, though, it's discovered that its new wealth of renewable supplies can actually threaten to destabilize the grid. However,…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 13, 20130Comments

Energy

Big ‘liquid batteries’ could mean a better, cleaner grid

"Liquid batteries" could provide the answer to the large-scale energy storage challenges of a smarter, cleaner electricity grid. A grid-scale switch to cleaner power such as wind or solar would require some form of energy storage to ensure the lights stay on even when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. However, using standard…

ByThe Global ViewJuly 17, 20121Comment

Policy

Do people have a right to be inefficient?

Do people have a right to be inefficient? If that sounds like a strange question, it's one we're likely to encounter more often as energy prices keep rising, carbon reduction requirements grow stricter and utilities work to make grids smarter. In the US especially, where a certain proportion of people has always viewed any government regulations…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 14, 20121Comment

Policy

Do smart meters make electricity customers happier?

Democracies and automobile windshields both work a whole lot better when they're transparent, and the same appears to be true for utility bills. One of the key arguments in favor of smart electricity meters is that they give users greater insights into how much energy they're using, when they're using it most and what uses account…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 16, 20120Comments

Smart Cities

Oslo’s 65,000 streetlights to get an IQ upgrade

The streetlights in Norway's capital city are on track to become a whole lot smarter, with networked controls that will enable targeted dimming to conserve energy, automatic switching and easier identification of problems and failures. The improvements were set in motion when Oslo officials approved a contract with the French firm CITELUM, which plans to deploy…

ByThe Global ViewSeptember 22, 20110Comments

Smart Cities

International Battery to supply storage for Swedish utility

Allentown, Pennsylvania-based International Battery will supply its lithium-ion phosphate batteries for an energy storage system being developed by ABB for a Swedish utility. The energy storage system will be part of the power distribution network for Falbygdens Energi AB, a subsidiary of Göteborg Energi AB. ABB's grid-tied distributed energy storage system will use International Battery's large-format batteries…

ByThe Global ViewSeptember 7, 20110Comments

Smart Cities

Israeli Smart Grid group receives R&D funding

The Israeli Smart Grid (ISG) Consortium has received funding through the MAGNET R&D program run by the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. The consortium, which was spearheaded by CEVA -- a licensor of silicon intellectual property platform solutions and digital signal processor cores -- consists of seven industrial…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 15, 20110Comments

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Modernized grid cuts carbon, energy costs

People prefer ‘smart grids’ with local energy

Tampering scandal hits Malta’s smart-grid ambitions

Tiny island in Azores moves to greener, smarter microgrid

Big ‘liquid batteries’ could mean a better, cleaner grid

Do people have a right to be inefficient?

Do smart meters make electricity customers happier?

Oslo’s 65,000 streetlights to get an IQ upgrade

International Battery to supply storage for Swedish utility

Israeli Smart Grid group receives R&D funding

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