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		<title>Old vs. new: Smart grid and real time electricity metering    / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/12/old-vs-new-smart-grid-and-real-time-electricity-metering-the-christian-science-monitor-csmonitor-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All change is bad. The Smart Electricity Meter roll out offers a test of this claim. These meters provide us with real time information about our minute by minute electricity consumption. In a world where we are glued to our Iphones and Blackberries, shouldn&#8217;t such information be useful and improve our quality of life? After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft survey: Utilities still slow to buy into the Smart Grid | VentureBeat</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/12/microsoft-survey-utilities-still-slow-to-buy-into-the-smart-grid-venturebeat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utilities around the world are still struggling to understand and implement new technology needed to make electrical grids cleaner and more efficient. Only 8 percent of them worldwide have finished rolling out smart meters and other equipment under the banner of “Smart Grid,” according to new survey data collected by Microsoft.
Completed Smart Grid deployments might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>www.metering.com | ZigBee Smart Energy gateway introduced</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/www-metering-com-zigbee-smart-energy-gateway-introduced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ConnectPort X2 for Smart Energy gateway that connects ZigBee Smart Energy devices from a home area network (HAN) to an energy service provider via broadband has been introduced by Digi International.
It is the industry’s first gateway that connects, controls, or gathers data from ZigBee Smart Energy devices equally well before or with smart meter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dubai tower exporting 10 times more renewable energy than needed – SmartPlanet</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/dubai-tower-exporting-10-times-more-renewable-energy-than-needed-smartplanet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 10 MW Tower in Dubai is quite a renewable energy machine. The skyscraper is pumping out 10 times the amount of energy it needs and is exporting power to the surrounding neighborhood.
Studied Impact, the architects behind the 10 MW Tower, note that the tower has three energy producing systems: a horizontal axis wind turbine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really Smart (and Social) Energy: GroundedPower’s System Pinpoints User Motivations to Lower Home Energy Consumption  | Xconomy</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/really-smart-and-social-energy-groundedpower%e2%80%99s-system-pinpoints-user-motivations-to-lower-home-energy-consumption-xconomy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, it seems there’s nothing that can’t be accomplished by the use of online social communities. Even lowering energy consumption.
That’s the approach taken by GroundedPower, a Gloucester, MA-based startup that produces a system that monitors consumers’ real-time energy consumption and spurs them with goal-setting and online community engagement to lower that consumption over time.
via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New “Smart Meters” for Energy Use Put Privacy at Risk | Electronic Frontier Foundation</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/new-smart-meters-for-energy-use-put-privacy-at-risk-electronic-frontier-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ebb and flow of gas and electricity into your home contains surprisingly detailed information about your daily life. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment, allows the reconstruction of a household&#8217;s activities: when people wake up, when they come home, when they go on vacation, and maybe even when they take a hot bath.
California&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a Smart Meter Isn’t Very Smart — Environmental Protection</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/when-a-smart-meter-isnt-very-smart-environmental-protection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent deployments of smart meters in California and Texas have been met with protests and probes and has left me wondering why this is happening. The meters are supposed to be smart, right?
They&#8217;re &#8217;smart&#8217; because they were engineered to help energy users conserve and become more efficient based on the feedback the meters provided. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Echelon ships two million smart meters</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/echelon-ships-two-million-smart-meters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Echelon announced on March 10 that it had shipped two million of its Networked Energy Services (NES) smart meters.  Danish utility SEAS-NVE pushed Echelon over the milestone with its order for 390,000 smart meters as part of the biggest smart grid project in Denmark.
The NES smart grid solution allows for a feature rich and highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft unveils smart grid software secrets | utilities-me.com</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/microsoft-unveils-smart-grid-software-secrets-utilities-me-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Arnold, managing director and Larry Cochrane, industry technology strategist of Microsoft’s worldwide power and utilities industry division, explain the software behind smart grid systems.
Smart grid is the hot topic on every utility executive’s mind around the world.
The European Commission estimates that US€1 trillion will be spent improving Europe’s electricity network and generation capacity by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Grid Energy Storage to the Edge              			                                – Utility Automation/Electric Light &amp; Power</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/taking-grid-energy-storage-to-the-edge-utility-automationelectric-light-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of storing electricity generated in a utility grid has been tried since the beginning of the power industry. In the U.S., large-scale storage projects flourished in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s as utilities added 18 GWs of pumped hydro facilities to support the rapid build out of the fleet of nuclear power plants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Surging Smart Grid Investments Result in Surging Electric Prices? | Alternative Energy Stocks</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/will-surging-smart-grid-investments-result-in-surging-electric-prices-alternative-energy-stocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The electric power system in the U.S. is dirty, antiquated, stupid, unstable, and a security nightmare. After years of discussion and debate, consensus now holds that the generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure will need hundreds of billions in new investment to reduce emissions, improve reliability, minimize waste and inefficiency, improve security, and facilitate the integration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embedded.com – Designing intelligent smart grid systems that promote energy efficiency</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/embedded-com-designing-intelligent-smart-grid-systems-that-promote-energy-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/?p=6509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a great deal of excitement surrounding the smart grid roll-out happening worldwide as it promises to make the delivery of electricity more efficient, reliable, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective. Governments around the world are investing is smart grid deployments. For example, the U.S. government has earmarked $4.5 billion, while in China, a 4 trillion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions Arise About Tax Status of Broadband Stimulus, Smart Grid Awards</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/questions-arise-about-tax-status-of-broadband-stimulus-smart-grid-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been so many questions around the recent smart grid and broadband stimulus programs that only recently did interested parties stop to ponder whether these monies will be taxable. However, this question recently came to the fore related to smart grid grant money. And now some folks understandably wanted to get a clarification on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC Utilities and Regulators At Odds Over Smart Grid Reporting : Greentech Media</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/nc-utilities-and-regulators-at-odds-over-smart-grid-reporting%c2%a0%c2%a0greentech-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulators and utilities in North Carolina agree that more information needs to be shared about smart-grid deployment in the state, but they&#8217;re not yet synced on what information that should be.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission has proposed that each utility file a &#8220;smart grid technology plan&#8221; as part of its biennial resource plans. Two of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How deep can Intel get inside the smart grid? | GreenTech Pastures</title>
		<link>http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2010/03/11/how-deep-can-intel-get-inside-the-smart-grid-greentech-pastures-zdnet-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think a lot about which companies that I’ve been covering for zillions of years will be around 10 years from now, as the Internet moves into its next phase of innovation around things like machine to machine communications, which is sort of personified in the smart grid. If you think Microsoft and IBM and [...]]]></description>
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