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National Grid Unveils Future Home of Sustainability Hub

National Grid today unveiled plans for the future home of its Sustainability Hub, a 2,200 square-foot facility centrally located within the company’s smart grid pilot area in Worcester, Mass. The space, located at 912 Main Street, has been donated by Clark University and will connect the community and customers under one roof to provide interactive education about energy efficiency and emerging technologies. It is an integral part of the...

Smart Grids - May 21, 2013

Smart Grid Program Created Nearly 2,700 Jobs in First Quarter 2013

ComEd announced that work related to the Smart Grid program created nearly 2,700 full-time equivalent jobs in the first quarter of 2013. These include nearly 900 direct full-time equivalent jobs at the utility and its contractors as submitted in a report to the Illinois Commerce Commission, plus nearly 1,800 indirect full-time equivalent positions. The report showed that the grid modernization program produced 896 full-time equivalent posi...

Smart Grids - May 21, 2013

Connode AB and Itron to deliver Smart Metering communications to Vattenfall Heat Sweden Operations

Connode AB has reached an agreement to deliver Connode wireless mesh communication solution as a core component in Swedish utility Vattenfall Heat Sweden Operations’ deployment of remote heat meters in the Uppsala region in Sweden. Vattenfall Heat Sweden Operations is a subsidiary of Vattenfall, a leading utility company in Northern Europe. Some 8000 heat meters using Connode M-Bus enabled Wireless communication terminals will be dep...

Smart Grids - May 1, 2013