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Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners…Itron wins Bangladesh contract: Itron will supply 8,600 prepaid gas meters to the national utility of Bangladesh, Titus Gas Transmission and Distribution Co. According to a report at metering.com,...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners…Enel's big PV move in Chile: The utility giant's renewables division started construction on two photovoltaic (PV) plants in northern Chile. The Lalackama plant, with an installed capacity of 60 MW,...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Power outages are costly – even those brief blips when the lights flicker momentarily. S&C Electric VP Mike Edmonds suggests what may seem like a momentary nuisance to most of us can cost the U.S. economy $52 billion each year.How? Here are his...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners and Advisors....Bechtel lauded by DOE for safety work at Hanford: Council Global Partner Bechtel has once again earned the highest recognition for excellence in safety from the U.S. Department of...
Article - 05/16/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity
S&C Electric engineers Britain's biggest battery farm: Reuters calls it Britain's most ambitious smart grid project yet – a giant battery farm that will power the fast-growing town of Leighton Buzzard north of London. Council Global Partner S...
Article - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Computing resources
Hamburg, Germany is no slouch when it comes to smart approaches. In fact, Cisco's chief globalization officer Wim Elfrink said the other day that Hamburg is quickly emerging as one of the world's smart city showcases. And Cisco, a Council Global...
Article - 05/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
A new report from Navigant Research anticipates that light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will be the leading lamp type for outdoor lighting systems in just 10 years. This isn't a big surprise, given LED prices continue to fall and cities are starting to...
Article - 05/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control, Research, publications and web sites
The EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Initiative was a seven-year international collaborative research program which studied many different aspects of modernizing the world’s energy grid. Twenty-four utilities from Australia, Canada, France, Ireland,...
Resources - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
In this short video, Laurent Schmitt of Alstom Grid, a Council Global Partner, explains how big data and security are paramount to Alstom's business and future objectives for smart grid systems. He also discusses how Alstom's collaboration with...
Resources - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Security and privacy