Smart city data reflects San Diego EV market, attitudes
Smart City San Diego, which launched its Solar-to-EV project — one of the first of its kind in the world — in September 2012, has now released usage data collected at the EV charging stations…
How utilities are using big data
Utilities and grid operators are turning to experts to handle the big data they are gathering. Use of data about their systems and their customers varies widely. While it can inform transactive energy services…
Helping Augmented Reality Reach Its Potential
Several IEEE activities bring awareness to the technology’s possibilities Augmented reality—which provides a digitally enhanced view of the world by adding…
Prediction about smart cities
The number of smart cities worldwide will quadruple within a 12-year period — with at least 88 by 2025 — proliferating as local governments work with the private sector to cope with a multitude of…
Global leaders embracing smart cities
The smart city concept is driving new integrated approaches to city operations with city leaders globally embracing the smart city concept by heralding innovative projects and laying out a vision for how cities can use…
The Rise of the Personal Power Plant
Smart and agile power systems will let every home and business generate, store, and share electricity Photo: Adam Voorhes; Prop Stylist: Robin Finlay At first glance, downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, looks like a sweet anachronism….
Capitalizing on the digital transformation
Energy companies are undergoing a digital transformation. Customers are driving this shift in business model, in part, through their choice of communication channels. Mobile is a huge part. In 2013, utility customer communication via mobile…
Smart Cities: Choice or necessity?
Asia-Pacific boasts most of the world’s largest and fastest-growing urban areas, and smart city technology is becoming a crucial element of their future development, according to Navigant Research, as nations throughout the region are sponsoring…
Breaking news
Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative, a not-for profit rural electric generation and transmission cooperative that provides the wholesale power to four rural electric distribution cooperatives in Northeast Texas, today announced it has filed a petition with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) to order the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to suspending invoicing, billing […] The post Another Texas utility facing sky-high electric bills requests help from PUCT appeared first on POWERGRID International. [...]
Granholm said she thinks electric utilities can reach President Joe Biden's goal of 100 percent clean electricity by 2035. The head of a utility lobbying group said last month that the 2035 date would be “an incredibly difficult situation to handle” for most U.S. electricity providers The post AP Interview: DOE reviving loan program, Granholm says appeared first on POWERGRID International. [...]
FedEx Corp. announced this week that it wants to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. The company laid out three key areas it will focus on via a $2B investment: vehicle electrification, sustainable energy, and carbon sequestration. This includes a pledge of $100 million to Yale University to help establish the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture, which will be […] The post FedEx plans to be all-electric by 2040 appeared first on POWERGRID International. [...]
As part of its plan to modernize its electric distribution system in Ohio, The Illuminating Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp said its completing electrical grid upgrades in eastern Cuyahoga County to limit the frequency and duration of power outages. The work is part of an initial three-year phase of the company’s grid modernization plan […] The post FirstEnergy subsidiary The Illuminating Company is making the grid in Ohio more resilient appeared first on POWERGRID International. [...]
Staff and wire reports Another political victim has fallen in the aftermath of Texas’ disastrous power outages during the historic February freeze. The board of directors for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas canned CEO Bill Magness late Wednesday by a 6-1 vote. Magness’ firing follows the resignation of state Public Utilities Commission Chair DeAnn […] The post ERCOT board fires CEO Magness in wake of Texas February power freezeout appeared first on POWERGRID International. [...]
