LineVision closes $12.5m series B round
Massachusetts start-up LineVision, a provider of non-contact overhead power line sensors to monitor, optimise and protect critical energy delivery infrastructure, has closed its series B financing round, raising $12.5m. [...]
ComEd smart grid provides economic boost for Illinois
Chicago utility ComEd believes its grid improvements lay the foundation for post-pandemic business growth and will help spark economic development in Illinois. ComEd in 2020 completed infrastructure improvements that [...]
Schneider partners Workbench to manage energy in Ontario
Schneider Electric and Canadian firm Workbench Energy, a peak prediction and energy market operations platform, are working together to integrate energy management in Ontario. The partnership equips large-scale utilities [...]
Bosch fuel cell powers Bamberg district
Bosch and the Bamberg public utility are using a stationary fuel cell connected to an IoT cloud to produce electricity and heat in a city district. The stationary fuel [...]
Taoglas monitors genset health with real-time analytics
Taoglas has launched an IoT-enabled electricity genset monitor so businesses can optimise their fleet of generators with real-time data and analytics anywhere, anytime. The Irish firm’s Genset Insights can [...]
Polk-Burnett picks Landis+Gyr for smart grid update
Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative has selected Landis+Gyr to provide smart grid and metering technology as part of the its advanced grid initiative. Based in Wisconsin, Polk-Burnett is replacing its legacy [...]
Canada invests in smart grids for Alberta
The Canadian government is investing more than $900,000 for two smart grid projects in Alberta that should enhance the energy grid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The announcement was [...]
Epri investigates co-adoption of solar, storage and EVs
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a $2m contract to the Electric Power Research Institute (Epri) to investigate the co-adoption of solar, energy storage and electric vehicles. [...]
White paper explores building grid intelligence
Copper Labs, a Colorado-based company offering patent-pending wireless real-time energy management (WREM), has published a white paper on building real-time grid intelligence. Prepared by Guidehouse Insights, the paper examines [...]
Microsoft joins IMC to accelerate IoT adoption
Microsoft has joined the IoT M2M Council (IMC), a trade group that fosters a community of 25,000 qualified IoT users. The Microsoft Azure IoT Engineering group will use the [...]
Total and Microsoft collaborate to hit zero emissions
French energy group Total is collaborating with Microsoft to further digital transformation and support progress towards net-zero emissions. The dynamic development of Microsoft and Total in their respective areas [...]
SaskPower pilots residential smart meters
After safety testing and installing 35,000 commercial and industrial smart meters, Canadian utility SaskPower is now piloting its process for residential smart meters. “We’re looking forward to providing our [...]
