The power grid in China is undergoing a fundamental upgrade, focusing on the development of a smart grid. A primary element of this transformation is the deployment of interactive technologies, including smart meters for residences and businesses. According to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant's Energy Practice, the installed base of smart meters in China will reach 377 million by 2020, gr ...

Qatar General Water and Electricity Corporation (Kahramaa) has announced plans to launch a smart grid pilot project in Duhail to introduce the technology in the country. The project will be implemented in two phases. The first phase will have an installed capacity to produce three to five MW of electricity and about 500 cubic metes of water. Kahramaa’s head of Renewable Energy Technology and Technical Affai ...

ZBB Energy Corp. has shipped an energy storage and power control system to South Korean firm Lotte Chemical. The companies have a business relationship that gives Lotte, formerly known as Honam Petrochemical, the ability to market ZBB systems in parts of South Korea. “We continue to work closely with Lotte Chemical to develop, manufacture and sell our products in key markets,” Eric Apfelbach, ZBB Energy pre ...

LS Industrial Systems Co, a leading South Korean manufacturer of electric components, said it has won a US$ 67 million deal to build a power distribution control center for the Iraqi government. Under the deal with Iraq's Ministry of Electricity, the company will build seven distribution control centers across the country by early 2015, LS Industrial said in a press release. The deal is the biggest a local ...

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, announced that it now offers a second generation 0.35-micron BCD (Bipolar/CMOS/DMOS) high voltage process technology. This next generation process supports applications from 3.3V to 65V making it ideally suited for DC-DC converters and regulators, Power-over-Ethernet, LED drivers, ...

Billing-systems vendor Orga Systems has been asked to contribute its expertise to an EU-funded smart-grid project in Thailand. The company has been running a series of training sessions about introducing cost-effective and user-friendly smart grids to the Thai market as part of the SmartThai initiative. Owing to the success of those workshops, Thailand’s Ministry of Energy has asked Orga (Paderborn, Germany ...

LG Electronics said it has agreed to take part in a smart grid project with U.S.-based Pecan Street Inc. in Austin, Texas. The firm will participate in the project as a member of the industry advisory council and will provide expertise in the research of smart homes, energy management and consumer electronics until 2015. LG's primary focus will be on the development of effective home energy management syste ...

The Indian Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is developing the country's own operating system (OS) in a bid to establish a more robust cybersecurity environment. India currently is dependent on many imported OSes based on Windows and Linux, which are likely to have malicious worms and security issues, DRDO's Director-General VK Saraswat said at the Navigation and Communication (NAVCOM) co ...

A Korean company is mulling to introduce a smart grid technology to the Philippines' power distribution sector and participate in the development of the nascent electric vehicle industry, a government official said Monday. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary Cristino Panlilio said LS Group officials led by their chairman John Koo, a member of the founding family of the LG Group, recently s ...

A security researcher claims that he found 23 vulnerabilities in industrial control software from several vendors after a different security company last week showcased vulnerabilities in applications from some of the same manufacturers, but chose not to report them. The vulnerabilities were discovered by Aaron Portnoy, vice president of research at startup security firm Exodus Intelligence, and affect SCAD ...