The Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has announced it is allowing Idaho Power Co. to modify a demand response contract with EnerNOC, as the utility does not anticipate peak-hour capacity [read more]
U.K.-based E.ON has selected TOA Technologies' ETAdirect field service management solution to help with the utility's project to install 8 million smart meters by 2020. According to TOA Technologies, its [read more]
Elster has named Mark Fronmuller president of Elster Solutions. He joins the company after serving as senior vice president of global utilities at SAIC Energy for the past five years. [read more]
Verdeeco, a smart grid analytics firm, has introduced a configurable online customer portal application that electric utilities can offer their customers. According to the company, this hosted application can be [read more]
Ernst & Young has appointed Alison Kay as the new global sector leader for power and utilities, effective July 1. Kay will lead a team of 3,600 [read more]
Tennessee-based electric cooperative Duck River Electric Membership Corp. (DREMC) has chosen AT&T to provide a comprehensive smart grid package, including advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), meter data management and other smart [read more]
Illinois-based Lincoln Electric System has announced plans to triple the amount of wind energy it uses within the next two years. According to a Lincoln Journal Star report, the Lincoln [read more]
Chicago-based utility ComEd says that work related to its smart grid program created nearly 2,700 full-time-equivalent jobs in the first quarter of this year. These include nearly 900 direct full-time-equivalent [read more]
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has announced a collaboration with Echelon Corp. to integrate Echelon's Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) into Mitsubishi's lineup of smart meter products. Mitsubishi Electric's new smart meters [read more]
The California Independent System Operator Corp. (California ISO) says its board of governors has approved a proposed market design change to help foster renewable development on the grid. Once approved [read more]
