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Utilities should open up API’s to their smart meter data

Utilities should open up API’s to their smart meter data

By Tom Raftery on October 21, 2013

The world of utilities is changing with the roll out of smart meters. One of the biggest changes will be the wealth of data that utility companies will suddenly be flooded with. As we noted in a previous post on GreenMonk, Centrica has: 18 million residential accounts and one million business accounts. Right now they […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged API, APIs, centrica, developers, greenmonk, hackathon, kingmakers, Public utility, smart meter, smart meter data, smart meters, utilities | 1 Response

Power line communications now being used in more and more scenarios

Power line communications now being used in more and more scenarios

By Tom Raftery on February 1, 2011

I had a nice catch-up call with Mike Holt the other day – Mike is Semitech Semiconductor’s VP Sales and Marketing and we had previously talked last August. Mike was bringing me up to speed on what has been going on with Semitech in the last five months. Semitech make semiconductor chips specially designed for […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged energy efficiency, Home automation, power line communications, Semitech Semiconductor, smart grids, smart meters, solar panels

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

Understanding the Smart Grid – my TreeHugger interview

Understanding the Smart Grid – my TreeHugger interview

By Tom Raftery on June 15, 2010

Jaymi Heimbuch contacted me recently to ask if I’d agree to be interviewed for a TreeHugger article she was planning to write on Smart Grids. “Love to”, I said. Jaymi sent on the questions, I replied and today she posted the interview on TreeHugger. Here are the questions and my answers: TH: What’s the biggest […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business, electricity, Energy, Fossil fuel, Kilowatt hour, smart grid, smart meters, utilities | 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

Hacker Disables Cars via the Web - Our Remote Controlled Life

Hacker Disables Cars via the Web – Our Remote Controlled Life

By Zoli Erdos on March 17, 2010

This is what remote controlled toy cars looked like when I was a kid.  Yes, the control box was connected to the car with a 3-4feet cable… not exactly the level of freedom you get with today’s wireless models. But it was fun, nevertheless.  I wonder if 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez had a toy car when […]

Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big brother, hackers, hacking, remote, remote sensors, sensors, smart meters, spy cam, sxsw, utility

Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Silver Springs Networks’ Raj Vaswani

Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Silver Springs Networks’ Raj Vaswani

By Tom Raftery on February 25, 2010

This is the third of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, and in it I talked to the CTO of Silver Springs Networks, Raj Vaswani.
It was a great interview – in it we talked about:

Raj’s definition and the benefits of a Smart Grid
The fact that, to-date Smart Grids are quite notional
How long it will be […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Energy, GreenMonkTV, home energy portals, raj Vaswani, silver springs networks, smart grid, Smart Grid Heavy Hitters, smart meters, Sustainability, v2g, vehicle to grid, Video

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

There’s gold in them thar bills!

There’s gold in them thar bills!

By Tom Raftery on October 21, 2009

Photo credit Urban Jacksonville
The output from smart meters is incredibly granular. Far more so than is obvious from the smart meter output graph above.
In conversations with Dr Monica Sturm (Director of Siemen’s Center of Competence, Metering Services) last November (2008) she confirmed to me that it is possible to identify individual devices in someone’s […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged data, demand response, energy efficiency, google, hohm, microsoft, powermeter, Public utility, siemens, smart meters, utilities

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