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Nest Smart Thermostat Matures In Market
Just recently, Nest announced that it was offering its smart thermostat in 1,000 Home Depot stores, bringing the company’s total North American retail reach to 3,000 outlets. The partnership comes...
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Smart Meters Not A Fan Favorite Among All Texans
In October, the city council of Brady, Texas voted unanimously to purchase advanced electric meters, known as smart meters, for the city-owned electric utility. But some residents resisted, and the...
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Grid Of The Future Unveiled In Oregon
An 8,000-square-foot, nondescript, two-toned box of a building in Salem, Ore., looking like so many you’d see in a thousand industrial parks, could represent the future of energy management. It’s...
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Smart Grid R&D Offers Many Lessons For Future
Recently I joined a panel of energy experts at the New York Times conference Energy for Tomorrow: Building Sustainable Cities. Given that the world’s urban population is expected to increase by more...
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Massive Smart Grid Improvements Target Storm Preparation
resh on the heels of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction last year, East Coast utilities are girding their grids for future storms, including a 2013 hurricane season that’s shaping up to be a tough one,...
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Oklahoma Smart Grid Program Helps Homeowners Save Big
We’ve been covering the attempts across the country to turn smart meters, in-home wireless gateways and pre-programmed, price-sensitive thermostats into real-world peak power demand reduction across...
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California, Texas Lead Nation In Smart Grid Technology
Which states are leading the nation in smart grid investment — and which policies and customer engagement practices are driving that lead? A new report from the GridWise Alliance and the Smart Grid...
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Microgrids Get Big Test In Connecticut
One of the most underreported stories in the U.S. energy industry today is Connecticut’s ambitious electricity pilot project—one that could have a widespread ripple effect across the country. On July...
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How Can The Smart Grid Save You $500 A Year?
Research shows that nearly 50 percent of consumers have heard the term “smart grid” before, but how many of us really know what it means? More importantly, how many of us know how accelerating the...
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Maryland Microgrid Enhances Clean Energy
The end of October marked the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, whose electrical system aftermath continues to drive calls for an updated and more resilient energy infrastructure nationwide....
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