All Posts Tagged With: "SmartGridCity"

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SmartGridCity Slammed at PUC Hearing

Both regular citizens and businesses took shots at Xcel Energy’s multimillion dollar Boulder-based SmartGridCity pilot at a PUC hearing yesterday. The ambitious program was cited for not having strong cost controls, according to filings by the commission staff and citizen watchdog groups.

1Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Festering Issue — The Cost of Smart Grid and
Who Should Pay

The price tag for upgrading the country’s system is set at $165 billion over the next two decades according to industry experts. As the costs mount, consumer advocates in Colorado and across the country are questioning how smart grid should be financed and who should pay the bill.

15Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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
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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
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Power Lines– Smart Grid Funding, Program and Tech Updates

>> Fed Funding for Smart Grid Goes to CO Companies
>> Tendril Networks Announces Tech Partnership
>> SmartGridCity™ Gets Toyota Plug-In Vehicles
>> Smart Meters Could Bring Big Savings

29Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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
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Energy Software Key to Xcel’s Wind-to-Battery Project

Xcel Energy says incorporating GridPoint’s software in the wind-to-battery project is part of their efforts to modernize and upgrade the grid to allow easier integration of variable renewable energy sources.

4Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued