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Friday Green Numbers round-up 09/03/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 09/03/2010

By Tom Raftery on September 3, 2010

And here is this week’s Green numbers: 1.25 Gigawatts of Solar Thermal Power Approved in California in Past Two Days Will Double US Capacity “There’ve been multiple gigawatts of solar thermal power plants planned for various places in the California desert for some time, but finally some more of them are getting the approvals need […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged arch rock, carbon credits, certified emission reduction, Cisco, clean development mechanism, energy efficiency, evapotranspiration, exelon, green roofs, GreenNumbers, heat island, hfc-23, iberdrola renovables, john deere, lcd, neoenergia, pg&e, redwood, sempervirens fund, singapore, smart grid, smart meters, solar thermal, transpiration, wind farms | 1 Response

Smart Meters: PG&E Lost What Little Credibility They Still Had

Smart Meters: PG&E Lost What Little Credibility They Still Had

By Jeff Nolan on April 27, 2010

This one sentence sums it up: After months of denying any technical problems with its SmartMeter program, PG&E publicly detailed a range of glitches Monday affecting tens of thousands of the digital meters. [From PG&E details technical problems with SmartMeters – San Jose Mercury News] This is the first time that PG&E has publicly acknowledged […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, pg&e, smart meters, smartmeters, utilities | 1 Response

When will we have full Smart Grid deployments?

When will we have full Smart Grid deployments?

By Tom Raftery on April 1, 2010

Photo credit mckaysavage Despite a lot of talk and some high profile trials the day we have ubiquitous full Smart Grids is still a long way off. I attended the Smart Grids Europe conference in Amsterdam this week. It was a great conference, I met a ton of interesting people and had some fascinating conversations. […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged electricity, Energy, oracle, pacific gas and electric, pg&e, smart grid, Smart Grids Europe, smart meter, utilities, utility companies

Can Smart Meters Succeed on Closed Standards?

Can Smart Meters Succeed on Closed Standards?

By Jeff Nolan on December 17, 2009

Yesterday my pal Tom Raftery posted about PG&E’s smart meter rollout in California and problems customers were experiencing, and he featured some comments that I made during a phone conversation we had. “It seems that PG&E’s smart grid rollout is woefully under-resourced at the back-end. What PG&E should have is a system where customers can […]

Posted in Business | Tagged electricity, pg&e, utilities | 3 Responses

PG&E smart meter communication failure – lessons for the rest of us

PG&E smart meter communication failure – lessons for the rest of us

By Tom Raftery on December 16, 2009

Photo credit svale
What we have got here is a failure to communicate
The famous line from legendary movie Cool Hand Luke is the first thing that comes to mind when one hears about the fiasco which PG&E’s smart meter rollout in Bakersfield Ca. has become.
From the report on the SmartMeters.com site:
a class-action lawsuit has been […]

Posted in Business | Tagged bakersfield, Energy, pacific gas and electric, pg&e, smart grid, smart meters, utilities

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