In order to streamline costs and improve performance, more state and local governments are looking at smart grid technology. In order to meet that demand, companies are adapting enterprise technology to provide real-time monitoring for infrastructure systems. Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has launched RTI Connext™ a real-time Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform that can be used [...]
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin set an ambitious goal for his state – 100% broadband coverage by 2013. The state is close to meeting that goal with over 90% wired for access. Now, officials are allocating capital and resources to improve mobile and wireless access points statewide.
Illinois lawmakers are pushing ahead on a smart grid initiative that passes most of the cost of the project on to the taxpayer. Under the terms of the bill, consumers will face increased surcharges on their utility bills to pay for the cost of a switch to a smart grid system. Governor Pat Quinn opposes [...]
Progress Energy is teaming up with IBM to further their smart grid utilities program in Florida and the Carolinas. The $500 million program will upgrade two of its electric utilities and add to existing capabilities for renewable energy and electric cars. Currently the utility systems in both states provide service to 3.1 million customers and [...]
A new report issued earlier this month predicts nearly 400,000 new plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) will be cruising American streets per year by 2017. Clean technology market research firm, Pike Research, says that three California cities, Chicago and New York City will lead the way in adoption of these electric vehicles over the next five [...]
In an announcement last week, Oracle said they had signed a deal with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), to replace its legacy customer information system. The deal comes just days prior to another company announcement, that will make Oracle business intelligence and analytics products more widely available for the utilities sector.
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners finished their 122nd Annual Meeting Wednesday, passing a host of resolution that will guide the groups agenda for the upcoming year. Atop the list was support for the establishment of a federal consumer advocacy office on energy issues; support for federal funding of broadband stimulus oversight; and a [...]
According to a survey from IDC Energy Insights, the growing wave of data being generated by transmission and distribution sensors in smart grid projects is being underutilized. The report says less than half of the world’s top twenty utilities and retail energy providers are leveraging the data generated by their smart grid technologies through analytics [...]
Governors in five Midwestern states have identified six energy transmission corridors that could connect more than 15,000 megawatts of wind development. The five states include North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Wisconsin and are looking at ways to develop these transmission lines for wind and clean energy in order to bring economic development and [...]
As part of an effort to reduce its carbon footprint while adopting new smart grid infrastructure technologies, Lakeland, Florida and SAIC announced this week a $13 million, 3-year deal.
