Where can you charge your electric vehicle when you have no off-street parking or garage? What is a simple cost-effective way to increase access to EV charging? Intellihub is one of several companies in Australia working to solve these problems with the innovative use of existing power poles. With a … [continued]
The humble electric hot water system, hidden usually in a corner of the garage, or even sometimes stuck outside the house in Australia, is being repurposed to balance the grid. For years, we have used tariff 33 to switch on our hot water systems at night for lower-cost electricity from … [continued]
GreenPocket CEO Dr. Thomas Goette talks smart metering and plans for expansion.
Freerk Bisschop, Director Smart Energy at Rockstart, and Evert Jaap Lugt, Managing Director at Yes!Delft, talk about what they look for in contenders for the New Energy Challenge –- and for their own startup programs.
We desperately need green NGOs and campaigners to campaign for time-of-day-electricity charging. Then we will get real smart meters, not the sham ones that are being installed now.
The deployment of smart meters in the United States has increased substantially over the last few years, with more than half the country now boasting two-way smart meters, and projections suggesting that a total of 70 million smart meters will have been deployed by the end of the year, increasing to 90 million by 2020.
Honeywell announced this week that it has been awarded the contracts for two smart grid projects in Mexico by the country’s federal electrical company. Honeywell has its fingers in a lot of pies at the moment, including smart thermostats in which it is a leading vendor along with Nest Labs … [continued]
Spanish electric utility Iberdrola has announced it has installed over 8 million smart meters in Spain. Iberdrola announced on Friday that it will boast more than eight million smart meters installed throughout Spain by the end of August, all installed within the framework of project STAR (Remote Grid Management and … [continued]
Poised for massive expansion, the global solar photovoltaics market is ramping up and excitement is sparking. Cost reductions, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), are driving huge increases in solar PV investments. As solar is outgrowing traditional feed-in tariff structures, new grid connection strategies are starting to generate … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Matthew Crosby and Enes Hosgor There are now over 50 million smart meters deployed across the United States, with millions planned for installation by ComEd in Illinois, by Consumers Energy in Michigan and many other utilities domestically and internationally. Smart meters measure and transmit customer load … [continued]
