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Oracle’s Turning Information into Power report

by Tom Raftery on March 18, 2009 · 2 comments

in smart grid

Oracle released the results of a research report last week called “Turning Information into Power“.
The report had some interesting findings – from the press release:
Americans are concerned about energy costs and show interest in new energy options.

94% are concerned with the energy costs of their primary residence.
95% are interested in receiving detailed information on their [...]

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Why Smart Grids are good!

by Tom Raftery on February 23, 2009 · 6 comments

in demand response

I have made no secret of the fact that I am a big fan of Smart Grids and Demand Response programs (properly rolled out, of course!). I have also spoken at various international conferences propounding the benefits of Smart Grids and Demand Response for quite a while now.
You can imagine my disappointment then when I [...]

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Grid 2.0 primer

by Tom Raftery on February 20, 2009 · 6 comments

in demand response

I’m giving a talk at the O’Reilly ETech conference in San Jose next month (March 11th 2009). The title of my talk is “Electricity 2.0: Applying The Lessons Of The Web To Our Energy Networks“.
The talk will be about how to make the electrical distribution system more green and more resilient using demand response and [...]

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REALLY Smart Meters!

by Tom Raftery on December 9, 2008 · 9 comments

in smart grid

Photo Credit yewenyi
Smart electricity meter projects are being rolled out all over the globe at this stage (here’s a map of the Smart Meter projects in the US), and with the Smart Meters, come Smart Grids and Demand Response programs whereby the utilities implement peak shaving programs (and in certain cases demand stimulation) to match [...]

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Smart Grids and unlocked Smart Meters

by Tom Raftery on November 19, 2008 · 6 comments

in smart grid

Photo Credit Tom Raftery
I have been talking to a lot of Smart Meter and utility companies in the last few weeks and it has been fascinating. I have learned a huge amount about some of the challenges and opportunities involved in rolling our Smart Grids.
The first thing to say is that Smart Grids are coming. [...]

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GreenMonk interviews Stefan Engelhardt about SAP’s vision for Smart Grids

by Tom Raftery on November 5, 2008 · 0 comments

in Podcast, smart grid, video

One of the more interesting keynote talks at the recent SAP for Utilities conference in San Antonio TX was the one given by Stefan Engelhardt, SAP’s Head of Industry Business Unit Utilities.
In his keynote he discussed decarbonisation and SAP’s vision around Smart Grids and Smart Meters. I asked him if he’d be willing to come [...]

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IBM’s coming on board will speed up the rollout of Smart Grids

by Tom Raftery on July 28, 2008 · 0 comments

in smart grid

Photo Credit MumbleyJoe
The observant amongst you may have noticed that we have talked quite a bit about smart grids here on GreenMonk. That is because we believe fundamentally in what it is they are trying to achieve and how they are going about it.
And we are not alone in that!
SAP’s AMI Lighthouse Council is [...]

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