Span lands $20m and announces Alexa integration
California start-up Span has landed an extra $20m funding and announced integration of its smart home electrical panel with Amazon Alexa. Span’s electrical panel lets users intelligently monitor and [...]
Enel starts smart meter rollout in São Paulo
Italian electricity company Enel has started installing smart meters in São Paulo as part of the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency’s (Aneel) R&D programme. The plan is to install 300,000 [...]
EDF calls Landis+Gyr for more smart meters
Swiss energy company Landis+Gyr will supply EDF with a further 650,000 smart gas and electricity meters by June 2025, following the initial order of 500,000 meters for its UK [...]
Columbus upgrades to Sensus smart utility network
The city of Columbus in Ohio is upgrading to a smart utility network from North Carolina-based Sensus. The technology should enhance the customer experience for electric and water services. [...]
ADD supplies 250,000 smart meters to Lebanon
Moldova-based smart metering company ADD Grup is to supply more than 250,000 smart meters for Electricité du Liban (EDL) in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, after a cooperation process [...]
Nottingham adopts OpenRemote energy management
The UK city of Nottingham is developing an intelligent energy management system (iEMS) for its Clean Mobil Energy project using OpenRemote’s open-source IoT platform. This data management offering will [...]
Funding for smart energy sector up 112%, says Mercom
Total corporate funding for smart grid, energy efficiency and battery storage companies in 2020 was up by 112%, at $8.1bn compared with $3.8bn in 2019. According to Mercom Capital [...]
SECC fact sheets show consumer benefits of smart grids
The US Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) has released fact sheets to help consumers understand the benefits of the smart grid and the ways they can engage in programmes, [...]
Sense projects monitor electricity to make homes safer
Massachusetts-based home energy company Sense has introduced two projects that make homes safer and more reliable. The first Sense Labs project is the Power Quality project that tracks variations [...]
IBM and Averta partner to transform utilities
IBM is collaborating with Avertra, a Virginia-based integration services, products and consultancy organisation, to accelerate digital transformation in the energy and utilities industry. Avertra will host its MiCustomer Digital [...]
Aeris helps Bboxx deliver clean energy in Africa
Bboxx, a utility that manufactures, distributes and finances decentralised solar powered systems in the developing world, is using the Aeris Fusion IoT network to deliver clean energy to over [...]
Schneider makes sustainable energy push at CES
Schneider Electric unveiled at last week’s virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) products that bring more safety and control while delivering sustainable energy management choices directly to homeowners. This is [...]
