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What Electric Companies Don’t Want You To Know

The Environmental Blog

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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Unreliable renewables: The challenge of metering intermittent energy sources

Smart Energy International

With the continued growth of renewable energy sources, traditional methods of electricity metering are becoming less effective. Unlike traditional power sources, renewable sources such as solar and wind power are intermittent, which means that they do not produce a consistently reliable output.

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Smart meters at the core of New Mexico grid modernisation

Smart Energy International

Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) has outlined a six-year $344 million modernisation plan for the electricity grid, with smart meters and cybersecurity as central components. According to the utility, their electricity grid serves more than 530,000 New Mexico customers. PNM Smart meters.

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E.ON installing 165,000 smart meters in Hungary

Smart Energy International

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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Solar advocates, Duke Energy reach net metering agreement in North Carolina

Renewable Energy World

Duke Energy and solar industry stakeholders have reached an agreement on net metering policy in North Carolina that will help expand distributed solar generation and benefit utility customers, the parties announced Tuesday. The policy would not be changed for 10 years. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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Unlocking smart meter data for research

Smart Energy International

James O’Toole explains how the UK’s Smart Energy Research Lab is enabling researcher access to smart meter data. With over 21 million smart gas and electric meters now in Great Britain’s homes, there is a growing wealth of half-hourly and daily domestic energy use data available to those who can access it.

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Europe’s ‘Destination Earth’ to deliver climate data for energy planning

Smart Energy International

The Destination Earth initiative has launched with the prospect of becoming a key input for the increasingly important climate data into planning in the energy sector among others. There are currently more than 300,000 users of the Copernicus data, primarily for energy applications and commonly for 4D reanalysis (i.e.