The City of Palo Alto, Calif. - which owns all its own utilities - has entered into three power purchase agreements (PPAs) that, together, will result in the acquisition of [read more]
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced more than $356 million in new loans to upgrade rural electric services, including more than $15 million in smart grid [read more]
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has announced Energy Storage Valuation, an analytical tool to help utilities, regulators and other stakeholders quantify the value and assess the cost-effectiveness of energy [read more]
Silver Spring Networks Inc. says it has undertaken several efforts to help simplify systems integration and accelerate deployment of smart grid technologies for municipal and cooperative utilities. According to the [read more]
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) says its 117-mile Sunrise Powerlink transmission line linking San Diego to renewable power in California’s Imperial Valley will play an important role this summer, [read more]
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has released the fiscal year 2014 Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, legislation that provides annual funding for national defense nuclear weapons [read more]
Open Access Technology International Inc. (OATI) announces that OATI webDistribute and OATI webSmartView, two applications within the OATI webSmartEnergy suite, have completed an audit against the Process Control Domain - [read more]
The market for smart grid technologies will reach $73 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2020, totaling $461 billion in cumulative revenue from 2013 to 2020, according to [read more]
ABB has named Ulrich Spiesshofer, the head of its discrete automation and motion (DM) division, as CEO. He will succeed outgoing CEO, Joe Hogan, on Sept. 15. In May, Hogan [read more]
Bryan J. Hannegan will join the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on June 24 as associate laboratory director for energy systems integration, an area of [read more]
