ComEd selects 6,500 to participate in smart meter pilot

Metering.com March 11, 2016 Smart Meters llinois-based utility ComEd has selected 6,500 customers with smart meters to participate in a pilot that will help them to manage and reduce their energy use. The 6,500 ComEd customers were randomly selected for the pilot and were given use of web and mobile energy-cutting tools and gift card … Read more

Smart energy could save UK GBP8bn annually, says NIC

metering.com 7 MARCH 2016 According to a report by the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission, smart energy could save consumers up to GBP8bn annually. The report says that smart energy infrastructure and policy could “fire a smart power revolution,” and that a smart energy revolution could save households approximately GBP75 by 2030. Savings are accelerated by … Read more

Bill Gates: World will deliver ‘clean energy breakthrough’ within 15 years

Guardian James Murray Feb. 24, 2016 Tech billionaire predicts innovation will deliver the clean energy the world desperately needs, but only if young people, businesses, and governments step up to the plate, reports Business Green Bill Gates says the goal has to be zero emission power – cutting emissions isn’t enough. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Bill … Read more

Indra-Intel launch new IOT gateway

Bringing Intelligence to the Edge: Indra and Intel If you can imagine in a world in which you can communicate with your refrigerator, your TV and your home alarm, you are visualising the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) – the concept of connecting devices, be they large power transformers, smart meters, pacemakers or … Read more

Israeli telecom company unveils utility cybersecurity solution

Metering.com Feb. 25, 2016 This week, global ELASTIC network solutions provider ECI launched a new cybersecurity solution to improve utilities’ operations. In a statement, the Israel headquartered telecom company said the new cybersecurity solution ‘LightSEC’ will boost its smart grid portfolio ElastiGRID. ECI claims LightSEC will enhance the safety and reliability of utility infrastructure against … Read more

How Much Oil Have We Used?

Science Daily May 8, 2009 Summary: Estimates of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet vary wildly. Now, researchers have published a new estimate in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology that suggests we may have used more than we think. New calculations suggest that experts have grossly underestimated … Read more

OIL – WILL WE RUN OUT?

By Andy May “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” (old Danish proverb, sometimes attributed to Niels Bohr) In November, 2016 the USGS (United States Geological Survey) reported their assessment of the recent discovery of 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent (technically recoverable) in the Midland Basin of West Texas. About the same time … Read more

Bill Gates’ superpower: More (and cheaper) energy

USA Today February 23, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Gates, the tech entrepreneur turned global philanthropist, says it’s not enough to use “lots of crazy-seeming ideas” to solve climate change. The cost of such clean energy must be lower than today’s options. Bill and Melinda Gates want young people to get involved in not only … Read more

Smart meters: Aclara wins US contract for 3.9m units

metering.com 15 FEBRUARY 2016 Global smart infrastructure tech provider Aclara last week secured a contract for provision of smart electric meters to two US power utilities. In a press statement, Aclara said it will provide the smart meters to Consolidated Edison, and Orange and Rockland (O&R). Supply of the 3.9m smart meters will start once … Read more