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Leafully Wins Green Button Apps Contest

Leafully Wins Green Button Apps Contest

Katherine Tweed: May 22, 2012

Forgoing kilowatt-hours for trees gets top honors for a Green Button apps contest.

Enter the Dragon: China and the World’s Greatest Smart Grid Opportunity

Enter the Dragon: China and the World’s Greatest Smart Grid Opportunity

Kamil Bojanczyk: May 22, 2012

China goes big in grid, and it’s all about transmission, distribution automation and smart meters.

How Analytics Can Solve Expensive Energy Problems

Video: How Analytics Can Solve Expensive Energy Problems

Staff: May 22, 2012

"What is the most expensive problem that big data can solve in the energy world?” Con Edison, Efficiency 2.0 and Johnson Controls respond. From the Clean Energy Connections series.

AlertMe Rolls Out Home Energy Analytics, Advice in the U.K.

AlertMe Rolls Out Home Energy Analytics, Advice in the U.K.

Jeff St. John: May 22, 2012

The home automation startup deepens its energy analytics chops with long-time partner and investor British Gas.

A New Smart Grid Powerhouse: Eaton Acquires Cooper Industries

A New Smart Grid Powerhouse: Eaton Acquires Cooper Industries

Jeff St. John: May 21, 2012

A new co-equal for the Four Horsemen of the smart grid. They’re also into smart buildings.

Green Button Apps: How Innovative Are They?

Green Button Apps: How Innovative Are They?

Katherine Tweed: May 17, 2012

It looks like the killer app for Green Button is still waiting in the wings.

Opower Adds Utility Customers, Tests Smart Thermostats

Opower Adds Utility Customers, Tests Smart Thermostats

Jeff St. John: May 16, 2012

The startup with more than 70 utility customers expands into Europe and pilots its smart thermostats with Honeywell.

Communication and the Smart Grid With On-Ramp Wireless

Video: Communication and the Smart Grid With On-Ramp Wireless

Staff: May 16, 2012

GTM Research analyst Emma Ritch and On-Ramp's COO, Jake Rasweiller, discuss the fragmented state of the communications market, the status of the DOE grant for On-Ramp's underground communications network, and the current issues and solutions around communications and data for utilities.

Predicting Solar Power via Satellite and Software

Predicting Solar Power via Satellite and Software

Jeff St. John: May 15, 2012

Clean Power Research says its prediction tools can help turn rooftop solar panels into predictable power assets.

Bringing Cross-Industry Analytics to Utilities

Video: Bringing Cross-Industry Analytics to Utilities

Staff: May 14, 2012

SAS Senior Director and GM of the Utilities Business Unit, Carlos Romero, explains how experience from other industries allows SAS to help utilities gain ROI from analytics.

Echelon Launches Cheap Meter, Warns of Unsure 2012 Outlook

Echelon Launches Cheap Meter, Warns of Unsure 2012 Outlook

Jeff St. John: May 10, 2012

Strong Q1 revenues, but uncertain 2012 outlook and layoffs and restructuring ahead. Will a cheaper meter help?

Insights From GTM Research on The Networked Grid

Video: Insights From GTM Research on The Networked Grid

Staff: May 8, 2012

Key take-aways at The 2012 Networked Grid conference? Utility communications deployment, how the presidential election will affect the smart grid, automation switching growth, big data and analytics, and water were some of the major topics of discussion.

Echelon’s Modular Smart Grid Lands Big Asian Partners

Echelon’s Modular Smart Grid Lands Big Asian Partners

Jeff St. John: May 8, 2012

First, smart meters; next, control nodes for the inverters, sensors, chargers and other grid devices to come

Tendril Raises $25M for Utility-Home Energy Software

Tendril Raises $25M for Utility-Home Energy Software

Jeff St. John: May 7, 2012

The Boulder, Colo.-based startup says some big utility customers are finally moving from pilot projects to larger deployments.

San Diego’s 2011 Blackout Caused by Poor Planning, Runaway Errors

San Diego’s 2011 Blackout Caused by Poor Planning, Runaway Errors

Jeff St. John: May 3, 2012

Knowing what your neighboring grids are doing and preventing safety switches from compounding problems are key ways the smart grid could help prevent blackouts.