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This is the fourth of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, and in it I talked to the President and COO of Landis+Gyr, Andreas Umbach. Landis+Gyr have been in the meter business for decades now so I was very interested to hear what Andreas had to say.
It was a great chat, we talked about:
Andreas’ and [...]
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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 [...]
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We had a great Energy and Sustainability show today – in case you were unable to make it, I recorded the video (above) and the chatstream (below):
Tom Raftery :
Kicking off the show in a sec
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cgarvey :
Cheers Tom .. I’m still stuck back at the smart meters link .. loads of [...]
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In this, the second of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, I talk to SAP’s Head of Industry Business Unit for Utilities, Stefan Engelhardt.
It was a great interview – in it we talked about:
Stefan’s definition of a Smart Grid
The benefits of Smart Grids to both the utilities and the customers of the utilities
The state of [...]
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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 [...]
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The output from smart meters is incredibly granular. Far more so than is obvious from the smart meter output graph above.
In conversations with Dr Monica Sturm (Director of Siemen’s Center of Competence, Metering Services) last November (2008) she confirmed to me that it is possible to identify individual devices in someone’s [...]
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Yesterday’s GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show went off without the technical hitches which plagued the previous week’s show. I fixed the chat app and the Google Calendar button so you can now add the show to your calendar (and be notified of any changes to the schedule).
Consequently with the chat app now working in Firefox, [...]
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Interesting bits of news from Oracle on the Smart Grid front in the last couple of days:
Oracle recently released Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management 1.5, which includes enhancements to help accelerate advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) integrations, to ultimately lower implementation costs for utilities that are implementing smart metering programs, [...]
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An article in the UK’s Sunday Times recently talked about the plans for a nationwide rollout of Smart Meters in Britain.
From the article:
Telecoms giants Vodafone, O2 and BT and system integrators Logica, Accenture, IBM and Capgemini are understood to have started talks to form bidding consortiums…
The government has put smart meters at the heart of [...]
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