Tag: smart grid
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Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Oracle’s Guerry Waters
I decided to run a series of interviews with people deeply involved in the Smart Grid space. I’m calling it the Smart Grid Heavy Hitters series. I will publish a new interview every Thursday until I run out of interviewees (or out of energy – poor pun intended, sorry!). In this, the first of my…
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The day that we see all devices which consume water having networked flow meters is still a ways off
I wrote a post a couple of days ago asking the question How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters? after talking to Oracle VP Industry Strategy, Guerry Waters about Oracle’s recently released “Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities” study. Having put the question out there, I’m now going…
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Ford discusses their Electric Vehicle and smart grid integration plans
Just before Christmas I had a chat with Ford’s head of battery electric vehicle applications, Greg Frenette. We discussed how Ford has been working with utilities and industry organisations to ready its electric vehicles for deep integration into smart grids. It was fascinating for me to see just how far Ford have proceeded with their…
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Google Energy to start disrupting the utility industry?
Photo credit filippo minelli There is no doubt about it but Google is a disruptive company. First Google disrupted search, then advertising, then video (with their acquisition of YouTube), and then Office applications with the launch and continued development of Google Apps for Domains. Most recently Google has disrupted the mobile phone industry, first with…
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PG&E smart meter communication failure – lessons for the rest of us
Photo credit svale What we have got here is a failure to communicate The famous line from legendary movie Cool Hand Luke is the first thing that comes to mind when one hears about the fiasco which PG&E’s smart meter rollout in Bakersfield Ca. has become. From the report on the SmartMeters.com site: a class-action…
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Guido Bartels of GridWise and IBM discusses Smart Grids with GreenMonk
Photo credit Ian Muttoo Guido Bartels is General Manager of IBM’s Global Energy and Utilities Industry. Guido leads IBM’s corporate initiative around building an ‘Intelligent Utility Network,’ IBM’s portfolio of offerings and capabilities for the Smart Grid. Guido is also a member of the Electricity Advisory Committee at Department of Energy, an organization whose mission…
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Klaus Heimann espouses SAP’s smart utility of 2020 at International SAP for Utilities conference
I attended the 7th International SAP for Utilities event in Munich last week. Having attended the SAP for Utilities event in San Antonio last year, I had reasonably high expectations from this conference and I wasn’t disappointed. At the San Antonio event SAP talked very much about the ‘State of the Now’ talking up their,…