News and Press Releases from Smart Grid Observer

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Provides Opportunity To Increase Urgency of Actions to Protect U.S. Electric Grid

Protect Our Power Executive Director Jim Cunningham issued the following statement on October’s designation as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Protect Our Power is a national not-for-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen ...

Oct. 4, 2019

Ofgem Releases Its State of the Market Report 2019

The UK continues to be a global leader in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to Ofgem's annual State of the Market report, but progress is slowing. Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% since 1990, more than any other large ...

Oct. 4, 2019

El Paso Electric Company Issues Request for Proposal for Advanced Metering System

El Paso Electric Company recently (10/1) announced the release of its request for proposal for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI or smart meter) and meter data management system (MDMS) to evaluate the best options available to provide a ...

Oct. 2, 2019

AEP Accelerates Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction Target

American Electric Power is cutting carbon dioxide emissions faster than anticipated and has revised its 2030 reduction target to 70 percent from 2000 levels. The company’s previous target was a 60 percent reduction from 2000 levels by 2030. ...

Sep. 19, 2019

Duke Energy Aims to Achieve Net-Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

Duke Energy recently (9/17) announced an updated climate strategy with a new goal of net-zero carbon emissions from electric generation by midcentury. The company also is accelerating its near-term goal by cutting its carbon dioxide emissions by ...

Sep. 18, 2019

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $110M for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced approximately $110 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under three funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Approximately $75M is ...

Sep. 16, 2019

Trilliant Networks joins Larsen & Toubro to Support Largest AMI Deployment in India

Communications solutions leader Trilliant and Larsen & Toubro (L&T), in May 2019 signed an agreement to support the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) smart meter rollout across Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. L&T ...

Sep. 6, 2019

Rocky Mountain Institute Completes Comprehensive Transportation Electrification Strategy with Seattle City Light

Recently (9/4), Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) announced the release of the first comprehensive transportation electrification strategy developed by a municipal utility in the United States, titled Seattle City Light: Transportation Electrification ...

Sep. 5, 2019

UK Aid Doubles Support to Reduce Global Carbon Emissions

The UK's Department for International Development and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have pledged to contribute £1.44bn to the Green Climate Fund over the next four years. This doubles the UK’s previous contribution of £720m ...

Aug. 29, 2019

The 50 States of Electric Vehicles: States Focus on Transportation Electrification Planning, Charging Station Regulation in Q2 2019

The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) recently released its Q2 2019 update edition of The 50 States of Electric Vehicles. The quarterly series provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on ...

Aug. 22, 2019

Great River Energy and 9 Other Utilities to Study Transmission Grid in Light of Ambitious Carbon Reduction Goals

The CapX2020 utilities plan to study the transmission system that serves the Upper Midwest to identify system improvements and infrastructure upgrades that may be needed to achieve the ambitious 2050 carbon reduction goals established or proposed by ...

Aug. 21, 2019

Energy Suppliers Learn to Defend Themselves Against Hacker Attacks

Energy company innogy recently (7/1) opened the first training centre in the German-speaking region of Europe in Essen, Germany, where operators of electricity grids can practice how to fend off hacker attacks."CyberRange-e" is innogy's ...

Aug. 19, 2019

Uplight Acquires Ecotagious

Uplight recently (8/6) announced it has acquired Ecotagious, a market leader in turning a customer’s energy data into energy savings. The deal follows the recent merger of Simple Energy and Tendril, and subsequent formation of ...

Aug. 16, 2019

E.ON Applies for Digital Patent for Full Customer Data Control

Data is the currency of the future. At present, however, only companies in the global digital industry are benefiting from this. Engineers at the E.ON Future Lab have now developed an innovation that puts customers on the winning side: they also ...

Aug. 12, 2019

Renewables Power Britain to New Carbon Emissions Record

On Sunday June 30 carbon emissions from electricity fell to just 97g per kWh, breaking the previous record of 104g per kWh set last summer, and for the first time ever meeting the UK Committee on Climate Change’s 2030 target of 100 g per kWh for a ...

Aug. 12, 2019

PSEG Plans to Reduce Carbon Emissions 80% by 2046 with a Vision of Net-Zero by 2050

As part of its Powering Progress vision for the future, PSEG announced that it expects to cut its power fleet's carbon emissions by 80% by 2046, from 2005 levels. PSEG also announced its vision of attaining net-zero carbon emissions by ...

Jul. 26, 2019

ENGIE Impact to Bridge Sustainability Expertise and Digital Capabilities as a Key Pillar to the ENGIE Group’s Zero-Carbon Strategy

ENGIE Impact was launched this month, uniting ENGIE Insight, Ecova UK, Red Engineeringand the Advisory and Advanced Analytics division of Tractebel under a common umbrella. ENGIE Impact will offer consulting and ...

Jul. 24, 2019

Just 153.3 Million LPWAN Smart Meters From 2019 to 2028

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