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Feb 16, 2011 1:59 PM GE Energy has published the ROI Handbook for geospatial network infrastructure management solutions: A structured approach to quantifying and delivering business value. The ROI handbook is designed to help network operators make fact-based decisions about investments in network infrastructure management solutions, gain buy-in by making the right level and pace of
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Free Webinar: Be part of the first webinar in a five-part series to explore what GIS offers to distribution integrity management programs (DIMP). This webinar provides an overview of GIS for such programs and will include a case study from one utility that has used GIS for DIMP.
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By Thom Patterson, CNN August 9, 2010 7:36 a.m. EDT | Filed under: Innovation New Yorker Philip Wilentz powers his TV with a car cigarette lighter during 2003′s massive blackout. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Non-disaster U.S. power outages up 124 percent since early ’90s U.S. electricity reliability low compared to some nations Experts: “Smart grid” would avert blackouts, save
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Stephen Munro munro@gtmresearch.com JULY 26, 2010 United States Smart Grid Policy 2010 IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF TEN KEY STATES DRIVING DEPLOYMENT The smart grid will be an essential component of state power scenarios as energy efficiency and renewable energy mandates proliferate across the United States. Since 2009, the Federal government has awarded US$4.5 billion in stimulus
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Jul 20, 2010 It’s easy to figure a strategy for surviving a tidal wave … run like hell for the high ground. . It’s more difficult to apply that thinking to the Smart Grid. We can see the wave is about to hit the shore… but which way is the high ground? Should a utility
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Jul 15, 2010 In separate stories, we’ve described how Cisco’s home energy management initiative reveals the underpinnings of the grid’s first operating system. And how Microsoft’s bureaucratic stupidity caused it to miss this billion-dollar opportunity. I want to use this space to discuss the good and bad aspects of Cisco’s Smart Grid strategy from the utility point
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Jul 15, 2010 Cisco is one of America’s great companies. But that doesn’t mean it has a lock on creating thegrid’s first operating system. I see at least five challenges in its way. Finding the right business model. Can Cisco really foist the cloud computing model onto utilities? After all, utilities make money by building
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Jul 15, 2010 More than a year ago, I gave you an early warning of Cisco’s end-to-end smart grid strategy. Later in 2009, Tulane professor Geoffrey Parker stopped by with an important survival guide to the impending smart grid platform. With the recent announcement of the Cisco home energy management solution, Cisco’s Smart Grid strategy
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MICHAEL KANELLOS: JUNE 24, 2010 Big equipment is going to be networked, says GE’s Steve Fludder. General Electric will double down on the environment. The sprawling conglomerate will spend $10 billion on research and development for products for the ecomagination group over the next five years, doubling the $5 billion spent in the inaugural five
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010 Oncor Joins IBM’s Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition; Furthers Smart Grid Collaboration IBM announced that Oncor, a Texas-based utility that delivers power to more than 3 million homes and businesses, has joined the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition. This group of utilities works to further the adoption of smarter energy grids around