Insights from our Editorial Team
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May 01, 2013 |
Brazil is considered one of the rising stars in the smart grid market, and a number of power companies are eyeing the country for potential investment. So, I asked experts at Northeast Group, a research and consulting firm based in D.C. that focuses on the energy sector and the rapidly emerging market for smart grid, about Brazil’s smart grid potential.
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Apr 29, 2013 |
If you’ve been in this business for a while and attended a few industry conferences, you may have heard the Green Button Initiative chatted about. But, be honest, you're thinking to yourself, "What the heck is that exactly?" Click on this article to find out.
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Apr 28, 2013 |
Memoori, a research firm from the UK, recently released “The Smart Grid Business 2012 to 2017” report, which looks into smart grid sales across the U.S. and the world. Around that big world in 2012, sales hit $36.5 billion. The U.S. was about 20 percent of the business overall, with Europe at 10 percent, according to the report and Memoori’s founder Jim McHale. McHale spoke to us about those numbers and Europe's "wait and see" experiment with some aspects of the smart grid.
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Apr 25, 2013 |
Trends change, especially on Twitter. At the speed of real life, trends flow in months or years. Slap bracelets have died and come back twice, but baggy pants are still in. On Twitter, though, trends change in moments, in milliseconds, in fractions of time only mathematicians know the correct terms for. We continue our series of best utility tweets by looking back at some of our favorites in April and all the changes.
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Apr 24, 2013 |
It’s easy to see why utilities are increasing their focus and investing more resources on demand response and energy conservation programs. An example from Pacific Gas & Electric makes the case.
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Apr 23, 2013 |
The workshop consisted of a number of panels that discussed industry perspectives and practices, and the path forward for the development of the framework. Several strong consensus-based themes emerged throughout the workshop, including the need for collaboration and outreach.
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Apr 22, 2013 |
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is a not-for-profit, member-owned electric cooperative based in Glen Allen, Virginia. ODEC’s core business is generating, purchasing and delivering electricity to wholesale customers, primarily their member systems. For this installment of our utility2utility article series, we spoke with Erin Puryear, manager of member services and energy innovation planning, about customer service, air conditioning and direct load control (DLC) initiatives.
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Apr 21, 2013 |
Are you an Edison fan or a Tesla fan? To many science geeks, this fight is akin to being an Elvis fan or a Beatles fan. You’re not allowed to be both. It’s against the code. So, how much of an inventor’s skill defines him, and how much is it all about getting the right eyes on your invention and research? Would Tesla have been as big as Edison with the right promotional skils? And how does that lesson apply to today's utility inventor?
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Apr 18, 2013 |
In part one of this series, Donald R. Johnson, an electrical engineer who specializes in stray voltage evaluations and serves at an expert witness in stray voltage lawsuits, talked about the general physics of stray voltage and the recent Southern California Edison lawsuit. Here in part two, he chats about his most memorable case and advice for homeowners and utilities, too.
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Apr 17, 2013 |
How often and how thoroughly do you think about your customers? Do you lump them into sums and then slice them into segments? Do you wonder about how they reach you and if they are reaching out to you—and you are reaching out to them—in the most efficient and effective way possible?
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