Jan 6, 2010 Back in November I did a piece on Smart Grid companies to be thankful for. That article looked back at companies that have firmly established themselves as leaders. Now it’s time to look forward. Which companies will emerge as the stars of 2010? We asked you to nominate the10 Smart Grid Companies [...]

Jan 6, 2010 By David Link Energy storage technologies will have a large role to play in the electricity grid of the future, with demand being driven by the growth of intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, the development of the Smart Grid and a shift to plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. [...]

Jan 6, 2010 Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. today announced that the recently released SEL-3620 Ethernet Security Gateway is now available for $2,800. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) Celebrating 25 years of innovation in 2009, SEL serves the electric power industry worldwide through the design, manufacture, supply, and support of products and services for power system protection, [...]

By James Murray Published January 06, 2010 LONDON, United Kingdom — [Editor's note: This article originally appeared on BusinessGreen.com, and is reprinted with permission.] Energy giant Npower has kicked off the new year by announcing it is to offer free real-time energy meters to small and medium-sized businesses that sign up to its E3 business tariff. Under the initiative, which [...]

Written by Susan Kraemer Published on January 6th, 2010 The New South Wales government has just introduced a Solar Bonus Scheme that could have residents earning as much as $10,000 a year to send clean electricity to the grid from solar panels on their own roofs. The incentive is a Feed-in Tariff like the one that was [...]

John Gartner — December 8, 2009 Driving to work and flipping on a light switch may seem to unrelated activities, but very soon lithium ion batteries will assist in making both possible. The nascent electric vehicle market is likely to standardize on lithium ion batteries. Today the cost of plug-in and all-electric vehicles is too [...]

29 December 2009 – According to a new report by Pike Research, spending on smart grid technologies is expected to reach $200bn between 2008 and 2015 as governments and industry leaders drive an overhaul of grid infrastructure across the globe. In the report, the key market motivators driving the smart grid build-out fall into four [...]