BC Hydro has selected IT company Telvent’s Distribution Management System (DMS), the company has announced.

The Philippines regulator, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has released draft rules for a feed-in tariff for renewable energy projects.

The ZigBee® Alliance and the Wi-Fi Alliance® have announced an agreement to collaborate on wireless home area networks (HAN) for smart grid applications, focusing initially on ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0.

A national wide-area broadband network in the United States is crucial to the development of the smart grid with the lack of such a network capable of meeting the requirements of the smart grid threatening to delay its implementation.

A massive surge in demand for non half hourly automated meters (AMRs) as firms rush to be ready for the new Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation that comes in to play in Great Britain at the end of this month has been observed by carbon and energy consultancy IMServ.

The rollout of smart meters in Great Britain will open the door to new forms of “smart” tariffs and price incentives, which could help to support delivery of energy bill savings to consumers, economic benefits across the energy supply chain, carbon emissions reductions, and security of supply, but there are many consumer and cross-industry issues to consider, according to a new report from the think tank Sustainability First.

Smart meters are soon to be fitted in select homes in Abu Dhabi in a pilot project to test the technology in saving energy and thereby driving down demand and system peaks.

New Zealand’s energy and resources minister Gerry Brownlee has confirmed that smart metering in the country will not be extensively regulated.

A coalition should be established to provide assistance to the United States federal government in implementing a national action plan on demand response, according to the draft plan.

A group of ten companies have established a “Friends of the Supergrid” (FOSG) to progress policy towards the construction of a pan-European offshore supergrid to connect large scale renewable power generation across the region.

Silicon Valley solar system manufacturer SunPower Corp. has been awarded a grant from the California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration (CSI RD&D) Program to investigate the integration of solar systems with smart metering.

Under guidance from the United States Department of Treasury and Department of Energy Recovery Act funding under the $3.4 billion Smart Grid Investment Grant program is deemed to be non-taxable.

The HomePlug(R) Powerline Alliance, today announced that Duke Energy, USA, which delivers energy to 4m customers has joined the Alliance's board of directors.

Com Ed will use $5 million in Recovery Act funding for the program, which will initially outfit 8,000 homes with advanced smart meters in order to test how well consumers manage their energy consumption when monitoring and programming are available.

These meters will become part of the smart grid installation currently being deployed by Eltel Networks A/S for the Danish utility SEAS-NVE, in Denmark's largest smart grid project with over 390,000 smart meters. The announcement was made today at the 2010 Smart Metering Scandinavia event in Copenhagen, Denmark.