Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $620 million in Recovery Act funding yesterday for 32 smart grid demonstration projects. The projects are divided into two categories: utility-run regional smart ...

BURLINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders on Monday joined utility and environmental group leaders to tout the benefits of smart meters, the new generation of digital electricity measuring devices ...

The FINANCIAL — More than two-thirds of utilities executives believe that the benefits of smart grids and smart meter deployments – which include improved customer service, reliability and outage ...

The smart grid enables a new multi-vendor approach to demand response (DR) that gives utilities and their customers greater choice — and delivers up to 40 percent more benefits than traditional DR ...

The increasing frequency of climate-related disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, and heat waves, highlights the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

PORTLAND — Researchers across the Northwest have demonstrated that new technology can help manage electricity use. Now they're betting they'll get the same results with new experiments and show the ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday joined utility and environmental group leaders to tout the benefits of “smart” meters, the new generation of digital electric measuring ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced goals for smart grid investments and funding to improve electric services in ten states, including Virginia. Here is a press release from the USDA: ...

A new study done by Dr. Bento Lobo, head of the Department of Finance and Economics at Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has been released. It shows the ...

“Smart Grid” is the name for a vision of what the electrical power grid should look like, where the grid itself uses modern networking technology to allow different parts of the grid to communicate.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Energy Services announced today that SP AusNet, one of Australia’s largest utilities, will be the first in the world to implement GE’s WiMAX fourth-generation (4G) smart ...