Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, informed the Lok Sabha that Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd has taken the initiative to implement several Smart Grid pilot projects in the transmission sector. Towards this, a pilot project in Northern Region involving Wide Area Measurement System using Phasor Measurement Units & associated hardware & software at control c ...

IUS Technologies from South Korea announced that it has entered the US market with its sights set on leading distribution technology for utilities and working with companies like Siemens, SAIC, and AEP. IUS is a subsidiary of Vitzro Group - a Smart Grid technology manufacturer in South Korea. "People in South Korea can't comprehend why the US continues to suffer from such widespread power outages," said Sco ...

Crompton Greaves (CG), part of the USD 4 billion Avantha Group, is setting up a greenfield plant in Jigani Industrial Area, Bangalore. "The plant will be operational by this year-end and help bolster India's Smart Grid initiative," it said. The plant will be making intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) which are critical in the control and monitoring of power systems. The plant will also assemble control an ...

Itron, Inc. announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Panasonic Corporation to develop a smart meter platform tailored to the Japanese market. The companies will utilize their combined global experience and local presence to offer a smart metering solution that will meet Japan’s electric utilities’ needs and requirements today and into the future. As part of the agreement, Itron will design, de ...

Itron and Cisco have landed another smart grid project together, and this one is on the doorstep to the world’s biggest future market. That market is China, and the doorstep is Hong Kong, where utility China Light and Power Hong Kong has picked Itron and Cisco for a 4,500-meter pilot project. According to Monday’s announcement, the two will link Itron’s cellular-enabled meters and data collection and manage ...

The concept of a "super-grid" capable of moving huge amounts of electricity over long distances is popular with environmentalists and governments keen to promote the integration of more renewables into the power supply, overcome transmission bottlenecks and bring power to remote communities. "An electricity super-grid could take green electricity produced in one country to another through thousands of kilom ...

The politically powerful chief of China's State Grid Corp, the world's biggest utility, welcomes bids from foreign firms looking to supply equipment for its smart grid but says they face formidable competition from Chinese companies. Liu Zhenya, 61, State Grid's president, dismissed accusations of protectionism, saying China's smart grid market was open and transparent. Local suppliers held the upper hand b ...

Korea will consider diverse ways to expand the use of the smart grid system as part of its efforts to enhance the country's long-term energy efficiency, the finance ministry said Thursday. The move is part of future energy policy directions the government reviewed during a meeting to enhance energy efficiency and effectively cope with other problems from greenhouse gases and climate change. The meeting is i ...

EnerNOC, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENOC), a global provider of energy management applications and services, has finalized an agreement with TransGrid, the New South Wales transmission network operator, to provide 35 megawatts (MW) of demand response capacity in the Sydney metropolitan area. Managing Director of TransGrid, Mr. Peter McIntyre, said the innovative demand management agreement between the two companies will ...

IBM today announced the launch of the Smarter Energy Research Institute, a new industrial research collaboration model aimed at accelerating innovation across the global energy and utilities market. Hydro-Québec (Canada), Alliander (Netherlands) and DTE Energy (USA) join as the first members. The Smarter Energy Research Institute is a new collaboration between corporate research and the energy and utilities ...