The Environmental Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Do you ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at your electric company? We recently had the opportunity to speak with other electricity providers that have been in business for over 30 years. There may be certain truths about electricity providers being kept hidden from public view – but not anymore.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As smart metering spreads worldwide, innovation in the sector is coming via new business models. Especially in developing countries that are mandating smart meter usage to improve efficiencies and combat environmental concerns, while providing a better customer experience. Smart meter development in India.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced funding for Intellihub in a virtual power plant (VPP) project to leverage a network of 2 million smart meters and interface with over 140,000 customer energy resources for optimised load control. On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has announced AU$9.75

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Smart Energy International

MAY 19, 2022

The move toward Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is becoming an essential driver for connected electricity meters, which are expected to reach an installed base of 1.3 “The name of the game is oversight, efficiency and security when it comes to smart metering,” Pavlakis stated. billion by 2027.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Industrial Revolution changed the way that industries produce and consume energy. Green energy solutions such as solar and wind power can power modern industries. In that way, they will not harm the natural environment while reducing the carbon footprint to offer a more sustainable energy source.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Increasing smart meter coverage within rural Scotland has been announced as part of their Government’s strategy to tackle the energy crisis. The announcement was made at an energy summit that saw Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, convene with energy companies and advice organisations.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 17, 2024

Hungária Group is currently installing more than 165,000 new smart meters in Transdanubia and Pest County in west and central Hungary, including the capital Budapest. The smart meter installation forms part of a major rollout, with 650,000 smart meters installed to date. Two-thirds are operated by E.ON. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A new partnership is supplying a cybersecurity solution for smart meters as the energy industry faces the increasing threat of cyberattacks. NanoLock Security, a device-level cybersecurity provider for smart meters and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) devices, and Renesas Electronics Corp.,

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 20, 2022

The smart meters market is expected to surpass $55.7 Rapid expansion and modernisation of grid infrastructures along with growing awareness of energy conservation will propel the smart meters market scenario. • million by 2025 Gas and power prices continue to soar due to Ukraine conflict. Market factors.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 12, 2024

India’s target to complete a nationwide smart meter rollout by 2025 is in doubt with progress in installations low, analysis from the rating agency suggests. million smart meters had been sanctioned by the government, but of these 98.7 However, only 8 million smart meters had been installed as of December 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 22, 2020

A recent petition to FERC could trigger nationwide changes to solar net-metering. On April 14, the New England Ratepayers Association (NERA) petitioned the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to assert jurisdiction over any on-site, behind-the-meter generation that injects energy onto the grid.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 6, 2024

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has adopted Wi-SUN Alliance FAN (Field Area Network) specification as the national standard for India’s smart meter RF communication networks. Have you read? Wi-SUN Alliance member companies based in India include Cisco, Renesas, Silicon Labs, Texas Instruments, Exegin and CyanConnode.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 30, 2024

Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has announced an upgrade and modernisation of its power transformer factory in Varennes, and other facilities in Montreal, Canada, to address fast-growing customer demand for sustainable energy in North America. The additional 130,000 square foot (approx.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Networked Energy Services (NES), originally part of Echelon, started its smart metering journey over 20-years ago. In 2001, NES participated in the first large-scale smart metering project with Enel in Italy, where more than 30 million smart meters were deployed. Smart meters: The new generation.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 23, 2023

New energy resources in the form of renewables, new loads such as electric vehicles, new energy storage technologies and the new integrated service models to accompany these are characterising the evolving power networks of today. They lack the capacity, flexibility, as well as visibility of operators.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2023

Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of Indian public sector undertakings operating under the country’s Ministry of Power, has announced installation of 3.6 million smart meters across India. Additionally, states the Power Ministry, ₹1.4 Million #smartmeters across India. trillion ($17.4

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2023

million smart electricity meters were installed to bring the total since the rollout began to 19.66 million smart electricity meters installed in 2021, when suppliers accelerated the pace to make up for the time lost during the government-ordered shutdowns of the previous year. During 2022, 2.37 Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Italgas Reti has selected Italian gas meter developer MeteRSIT to design its next generation gas smart meters. The new smart meters will be based on MeteRSIT’s well established thermo-mass technology and will be hydrogen ready, able to measure not only natural gas but also blended and pure hydrogen and other gases such as biomethane.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Hydrogen meters are under development and testing in the prospect of hydrogen blending into the gas distribution networks for supply to consumers. The reason for modifications, simply, is the different energy characteristics of hydrogen compared to natural gas. Its energy content is about only one-third that of natural gas.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Alberta utility ATCO is to install an advanced metering infrastructure and distribution management and other systems as part of the province’s electricity grid modernisation. billion by 2035 for smart renewable energy and electrical grid modernisation projects. Have you read? Together these projects are receiving Ca$75.6

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Although 2G/3G network sunsetting represents a major challenge in the IoT industry, the energy sector especially being impacted, smart metering through IoT connectivity offers benefits for customers and suppliers, explains Wireless Logic’s Paul Bullock.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 23, 2022

India’s Panaji Municipal Corporation has awarded its smart water metering contract to Cranberry Analytics for use of its smart meters. The award will see Cranberry utilise Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard into its ultrasonic smart water meters. Have you read: AMI to influence utility cybersecurity spend for 1.3

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Britain’s National Infrastructure Commission has called for further investment and upgrading of the electricity and water infrastructures among others. There should be increased adoption of electric vehicles, with a nationwide network of at least 300,000 public charge points across the country by 2030. But we need to get on with it.”

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Blockchain’s energy sector uses range from the highly speculative—think peer-to-peer energy trading using cryptocurrency raised in initial coin offerings (ICOs)—to more incremental efforts, grounded in real-world challenges of operating an increasingly decentralized power grid. are testing it out.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 6, 2023

US asset manager Blackstone announced that private equity funds affiliated with it have closed the acquisition of Power Grid Components, an electric grid components manufacturer. PGC is a domestic designer and manufacturer of a range of components for protection, monitoring and safety applications in electrical substations.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 26, 2024

machines is blamed on reporting errors from energy providers Nearly 4m energy smart meters in homes and businesses are faulty, government figures have shown, in a further blow to the “troubled” rollout of the technology. Fears of overcharging on bill grows after jump from 2.7m

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The survey, ‘The State of European Energy Data Maturity’, finds organisational maturity is growing but challenges centre on culture, data quality and technology. Moreover, the majority of companies now have a data-sharing strategy in place, backed up by governance mechanisms and budgets. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2023

CyanConnode is to supply 983,525 Omnimesh RF AMI modules for Indian state Madhya Pradesh’s smart meter rollout. The order from Montecarlo Ltd for the smart meter deployment in the city of Jabalpur in the central state’s east, also includes AMI hardware, Omnimesh head-end software and a support and maintenance contract. Have you read?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

YouGov research commissioned by energy company ScottishPower seems to have found that only one in five (20%) of the nation’s small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have invested in green energy solutions including solar panels, battery storage, heat pumps and electric vehicle charging points. greener-business

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

From the analytical power of data, through to the introduction of AI and machine learning, digitalisation is becoming paramount in enabling the insights needed to make better decisions in all areas of the evolving energy landscape. Digitalisation plays a vital role in addressing this challenge.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global sales of new electric vehicles (EV) grew from 3 million in 2020 to 6.6

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Tidal energy firm Orbital Marine Power (Orbital) has been awarded an Option Agreement from Crown Estate Scotland for a new tidal energy project in the Westray Firth. Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland, said: “These are exciting times for tidal stream energy.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In this debut of the Power Playbook, our spotlight on the finance and investment side of the energy transition, Yusuf Latief investigates how Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech is becoming a burgeoning market space ripe with investment opportunities. billion by 2026 , growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.28% from 2021 to 2026.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

The UK government announced the disbursement of over £80 million funding on 28 June, intended to give a boost to a range of projects geared towards ditching fossil fuels in favour of cleaner energy sources. Projects include hydrogen-powered cornflake production and low-carbon Scottish whisky distillation. CCUS Innovation 2.0

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Indian AMI provider IntelliSmart has announced a partnership with California-headquartered Trilliant for a head-end system as it continues with the smart meter rollout under the government’s Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS). Have you read: India marks 3.6 Have you read: India marks 3.6

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2024

Energy regulator Ofgem has re-authorised installation of prepayment meters on an involuntary basis by three suppliers, subject to certain conditions. The three suppliers are EDF, Octopus Energy and Scottish Power, which have been authorised as meeting the conditions and further must follow a comprehensive set of new rules.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Italian meter developer SIT is partnering with Switzerland-based GWF on new ultrasonic water meters and is introducing other new water and gas smart meters. SIT, with its background in gas metering, provides knowledge and expertise in smart meter communication technologies. Janz water meters. Have you read?

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