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Smart Metering


Demand Response

The Demand Response Revolution

For decades, utilities have been deploying demand response to achieve a variety of load shaping objectives, most notably peak reduction in response to grid conditions. Since their inception in the 1990s, independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) have also...


AMI & AMR

Fire Safety & Smart Meters

New study shows metering devices are electrically safe BY LEN GARIS, Fire Chief of the City of Surrey A new study by a Canadian university may help mitigate any lingering concerns about the fire safety of smart meters. “Revisiting the Safety of Smart Meter Installations in British Columbia”,...

Smart Grid



Grid Communications

Machine to Machine Communications

Connecting the ‘smart’ with the ‘grid’ with M2M technology BY JEFF DIXON, Freewave Technologies As the world becomes increasingly connected, the integration of smart devices and tools, such as sensors, process control devices, smart meters, and security cameras have increased the need for...

Automation

Smart Grid, Smart Metering, T&D Automation

Power Industry Moves Forward

Electric utilities embrace Smart Grid technologies

BY PHILL FELTHAM, Editor-in-Chief
Electricity Today Magazine

Compared to other industries, the power sector has been called conservative and slow-paced when adapting new technologies. However, power sector participants are changing their attitude toward new technologies such as the Smart Grid, which, consequently, is causing market growth as well as an increase in revenues.

COMMUNICATIONS
According to a recent Navigant Research report, worldwide revenues for Smart Grid communications networking...

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