All Posts Tagged With: "smart meters"
PUC Orders More Transparency for Boulder Smart Grid
The smart grid already allows Xcel to read meters in Boulder remotely, route power around bottle-necked lines and detect power outages without relying on people calling in. But the utility now says it believes the total bill will reach $42.1 million, not including O&M costs.
8Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Front Range Corridor Becoming Smart Grid Power Player –
Latest News: Power Tagging Lands Grant for eGrid
Said the Governor: “Power Tagging further extends the Colorado smart grid ecosystem with NIST, NREL and the most progressive green tech and smart grid projects in the country. Our state is creating the technologies that will allow all utilities to deliver power more reliably and affordably.”
24Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Smart Grid Funding: A Step, Not a Solution
Like early-childhood education, smart grids are a cause that nobody doesn’t like. But there are many related and necessary developments that must happen before the technology can fulfill its promise to reduce energy demand and lower consumers’ power bills. For one thing, displaying a home’s energy usage doesn’t mean much unless the residents are willing to act on that information.
9Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Debut of Counselor’s Corner –
Vol. #1–The Smart Grid: What’s the Big Deal?
Colorado Energy News is delighted to welcome Peter Edwards to our editorial team. A technology and finance attorney with the Denver firm, Fairfield and Woods, Peter will be presenting new items of interest for business and legal professionals in the energy world of the future, particularly in Colorado.
12Sep2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Xcel Flips Switch to Make Boulder First
“Smart Grid City”
Already a key objective is being achieved — early results of the smart-grid systems are helping the company predict what equipment will fail and fix it before the power goes out. “We have learned a tremendous amount from our installation of SmartGridCity,” says Xcel’s Tim Taylor.
9Sep2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Mountain News Round-Up –
>> Rio Blanco County Stands By Energy Fees
>> Holy Cross Energy Adds More Solar Funds
>> Vail Resorts Exceeds Energy Use Reduction Goal
>> Smart Meters Come to Some Aspen Homeowners
>> Gunnison County Gas Case Creates Intrique
Smart Grid Politics: Opening Statement at D.C. Hearing
“Smart Grid is not the build out of miles and miles of high voltage transmission lines. Instead, what we’re really talking about is a potential transformation in how we use and deliver electricity.”
5Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Stimulus Could Benefit Big Turbine Manufacturers
“Dollar-wise, the big guys will get the bulk of it,” said Hugh Wynne, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein, about the package which has spending and tax breaks for power lines, wind mills and smart meters.
12Feb2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Boulder-Based Tendril Seeks New Funding for Its “Smart” Power Technology
The company’s software systems enable consumers to program the “smart meters” in their homes to reduce consumption from items such as appliances and air conditioners during peak periods of power consumption.
26Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Digital Technology and Interoperability Key to Smarter Grid
Making the shift to modern digital technology will be a major endeavor. “Interoperability is really the big part of the focus for researchers and engineers,” says NREL’s Dick DeBlasio.
16Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The key point is their is a 90 yeear supply supply gas in the lower 48 ALONE.
This doesn't take ...
Cogeo - thanks for the comprehensive comment. You're prolific, indeed; however, overall, we just don't see the doomsday scenario for ...
Projections of reserves and years of consumption are historically wrong. Reserve estimations are more important in pumping up stock ...
Thanks Ann. I've heard that 100 year claim too, but at current consumption rates. I guess I could ...