DTE Energy, a energy provider to 2.1 million electric customers in Southeastern Michigan, has selected solutions from Itron and Tropos for its $168 million SmartCurrents program. SmartCurrents is DTE Energy’s first smart grid program and is targeted at modernizing the electric grid, improving distribution system reliability and efficiency, as well as empowering electric customers with more information about their power usage.
eMeter Corporation, a leader in Smart Grid management software, announced that Siemens Energy is the recipient of eMeter's 2011 Best Time to Value Award. eMeter announced Siemens' award at the 2011 eMeter Leadership Conference, that took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The conference brings together industry leaders in smart meter data management to discuss current trends and best practices, share ideas and experiences, and connect with like-minded professionals.
Tropos Networks, the best-of-breed provider of wireless IP broadband networks for the smart grid, today announced new fixed mesh and mobile mesh routers, increasing its line of products that support the 4.9 GHz spectrum. Tropos products expand the options utilities have for smart grid communications and provides them with an economical choice should they select to use licensed spectrum.
Setting the stage for ibec GLOBAL to help reduce international electricity pilferage, IBEC's GRID2020, a leading Smart Grid, real-time demand response and energy management solutions company, has acquired Kinects Solutions, Inc., a Canadian pioneer of transformer monitoring technologies and products related to detecting energy losses through diversion.
Elster and the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) announced today that the utility, which is the third-largest public power utility in the United States, will deploy Elster's EnergyICT EIServer meter data management (MDM) solution to manage more than 900,000 planned advanced metering devices in Elster's EnergyAxis® system throughout the utility's service territory.
IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), a globally recognized standards setting body within IEEE, today officially introduced its globally reputed project, the "IEEE P2030TM Draft Guide for Smart Grid Interoperability of Energy Technology and Information Technology Operation with the Electric Power System (EPS) and End-Use Applications and Loads", in India. Interoperability has been one of the key concerns in building a Smart Grid in India, like in many other regions of the world and the project aims to address this.
IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), a globally recognized standards setting body within IEEE, today officially introduced its globally reputed project, the "IEEE P2030TM Draft Guide for Smart Grid Interoperability of Energy Technology and Information Technology Operation with the Electric Power System (EPS) and End-Use Applications and Loads", in India. Interoperability has been one of the key concerns in building a Smart Grid in India, like in many other regions of the world and the project aims to address this.
The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) announced today that it had completed an agreement with PowerSecure International’s EnergyLite division to distribute the company’s LED area lighting solution. The energy-efficient solution called SecureLite, uses significantly less energy, lasts longer and reduces maintenance costs compared to traditional high-intensity discharge (HID) area lighting.