NEC Asia Pacific is aiming to tap the multi-billion dollar smart energy development sector in India over the next three years, a senior official has stated. "India will be a key market in NEC's Asia Pacific business plan from this year onwards," said Manish Kasliwal, head of the company's smart energy business centre in Singapore. "India will account for 40 per cent of the USD 200 million Asian revenue proj ...

Dramatic renewable energy development is taking place in Japan that its power grids can no longer handle the influx of clean electricity. As a result, the country will install the world’s largest battery at an electrical substation in Hokkaido where there is a high concentration of solar projects. According to Kyodo News Service, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced the battery will hav ...

Honda Motor Co. this week began testing a system to supply electricity to single-family homes from fuel-cell vehicles. Honda will continue testing the system, designed to examine how much power such a system could provide, by supplying electricity to a single-family house once a week between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in Kitakyushu. The experiment is expected to last two years until the end of fiscal 2014. The maxi ...

Korea, a few years back, identified smart grid as a dual opportunity. First, it could provide benefits to citizens. Second, it could become the next big export opportunity. Now it appears that progress may be stalled as industry and government point fingers. Will Korea revive its smart grid push under new President Park Geun-hye? Or will the new government repeat the errors that created what some are callin ...

Itron hosted an inauguration ceremony on Tuesday for its first Smart Metering Lab and Knowledge Center in India, at Itron India (located in Noida). The Smart Metering Lab and Knowledge Center is a demonstration center to showcase and demonstrate Itron’s smart metering and AMI solutions. It will benefit local utilities, government officials and other groups by sharing insights and knowledge Itron has learned ...

The Korea Smart Grid Association is launching a national program to encourage and support the creation of smart grid patents that meet international standards. Energy Korea reported that the organization is supporting companies, universities and research institutions that want international patents. The association is taking the lead in developing technologies and standards that can be baked into future pat ...

FuelCell Energy, Inc. a global leader in the design, manufacture, operation and service of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, today announced the launch of a new website at www.fuelcellenergy.com and an updated FuelCell Energy logo. In the past year, the Company has executed a number of initiatives including the acquisition of European manufacturing capacity, expansion in Asia throu ...

Silver Spring Networks, Inc. a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, today announced it has been appointed by SP PowerAssets Limited (SPPA) to deliver the network and control platform for the initial phase of its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project. Under this contract, SPPA, which is a member of the Singapore Power Group and owns the electricity transmissi ...

Intellectual property rights of smart grid technologies developed in Korea are expected to be protected in the world market, improving their competitiveness, as foundation for registering them as international standard patents is established. Korea Smart Grid Association said recently that it held the launching ceremony of the ‘program of supporting creation of standard patents’ for 2013 at the Patent Infor ...

Intelligent Energy today announced that its proprietary fuel cell technology is providing leading levels of power output and performance for a number of its automotive customers, with the company’s fuel cell stacks demonstrating continuous volumetric and gravimetric power densities of 3.7 kW/L and 2.5 kW/kg, respectively. “We believe that our fuel cell stack technology has achieved industry leading power de ...