Energy Dimensions

  FREMONT, Calif., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Delta Products Corporation, a Delta Group company, headquartered in Fremont, CA, has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), for the development and demonstration of a residential electric vehicle charging system with smart grid communication capabilities. The smart-charging system will [...]

Austin, TX – (Zpryme) – 5/14/12 – Zpryme (www.zpryme.com) continues to grow its competitive position in the smart grid research and consulting market by officially announcing the launch of its new Smart Grid Advisory Board today, with industry thought-leaders: Andres Carvallo, Christine Hertzog, David Sidhu, Gene Zimon, Jon Arnold, and Sandra Diethelm. The new additions [...]

The USDA has announced that rural electric cooperative utilities in 10 states will receive loans to install smart grid technologies and make improvements to generation and transmission facilities. Examples of funding include a $102.8 million guaranteed loan to the Jackson Electric Membership Corporation in Jefferson, Georgia, to build and improve over 850 miles of distribution [...]

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Britain’ households are soon to discover smart new ways to save energy and money with First Utility ( http://www.first-utility.com/ ). The UK’s leading independent energy supplier has teamed up with leading US smart grid software company Opower to create a programme which could reduce UK [...]

by Lance McKee Many industry, government and academic activities depend on being able to share and communicate digital geospatial information and instructions on how to process the information. This need ultimately leads to awareness of the need for consensus-derived open interface and encoding standards.  Different communities of geospatial technology users have different needs, which is [...]

MILWAUKEE, WI, May 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — ZBB Energy Corporation ZBB -5.84% , the leading developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, was awarded a contract to provide a ZBB EnerSystem(TM) integrated power management system for a microgrid installation at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam (JBPHH) U.S. Military base in Honolulu, Hawaii. [...]

by Nirosha Munasinghe – The smart grid is evolving at a rapid speed with billions of dollars of investments and many players entering the market to capture a niche. The building automation system (BAS) industry has grown at a significant rate in the last decade driven by open protocols and web architecture.  Two different industries [...]

NEW YORK, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — WHAT: Utility companies have invested billions of dollars in new smart grid program rollouts, but so far, customer adoption has been slow. A new PwC US survey and report titled Listening to the Heartland: Insights into a Customer-Centric Strategy for the Smart Grid unveiled today found [...]

The Global Smart Grid Federation has recently published their 2012 State of the World Report. This free report represents research conducted by SmartGrid Canada on behalf of GSGF. They asked participating GSGF members to submit country profile reports and project profile reports on smart grid activities taking place in their jurisdictions. They then conducted interviews [...]

 LONDON, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Global Smart Grid Federation (GSGF), a collaboration among national and regional smart grid associations from around the world, announced the release of its inaugural report on the global state of smart grid.. The report investigates the key challenges facing deployment of smart grid as well as [...]