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By Tom Raftery on February 25, 2010
This is the third of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, and in it I talked to the CTO of Silver Springs Networks, Raj Vaswani.
It was a great interview – in it we talked about:
Raj’s definition and the benefits of a Smart Grid
The fact that, to-date Smart Grids are quite notional
How long it will be [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Energy, GreenMonkTV, home energy portals, raj Vaswani, silver springs networks, smart grid, Smart Grid Heavy Hitters, smart meters, Sustainability, v2g, vehicle to grid, Video
By Tom Raftery on February 11, 2010
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 Smart [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Energy, guerry waters, heavy hitters, oracle, oracle utilities, smart grid
By Tom Raftery on January 22, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Electric utility, Energy, leak detection, oracle, smart grid, smart grids, smart meter, utilities, water
By Tom Raftery on January 13, 2010
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 thinking [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged battery electric vehicle, electric vehicle, ford, ford escape, ford motor company, Ford Transit Connect, greg frenette, lithium ion, Lithium-ion battery, plug in hybrid, plug-in Escape, smart grid, Southern California Edison, vehicle to grid
By Tom Raftery on January 10, 2010
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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 the [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged ferc, geothermal, google, google energy, google powermeter, gphone, nexus one, Renewable energy, smart grid, solar energy, utilities, wind energy
By Tom Raftery on December 16, 2009
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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 lawsuit has been [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged bakersfield, Energy, pacific gas and electric, pg&e, smart grid, smart meters, utilities
By Michael Coté on December 9, 2009
More details on what Smart Planet means for the Systems group at IBM.
Posted in Business | Tagged China, conferences, enterprise software, ibm, smart grid, STG, STGEvent09, Systems Management, Visa
By Tom Raftery on November 6, 2009
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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 is [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Electricity Advisory Committee, Energy Independence and Security Act, gridwise, ibm, Intelligent Utility Network, Podcast, smart grid
By Tom Raftery on October 30, 2009
Photo credit Barack Obama
President Barack Obama was in Florida on Tuesday this week for the official opening of Florida Power and Light’s new solar energy power plant. The 90,000+ solar panel plant, which has been installed across 180 acres of the 5,000 acre FPL property, is expected to generate 25MW of clean electricity (enough [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Barack Obama, Energy, fpl, Renewable energy, smart grid, Solar power, stimulus funding
By Tom Raftery on October 20, 2009
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, [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged demand response, electricity, emobility, klaus heimann, microgeneration, sap, smart grid, smart utility, utility
