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GE smart helmet keeps power flowing in India

A smart helmet from General Electric helped bring an Indian power station back online. During India’s countrywide lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Sanjeev Kumar, a field service engineer [...]

Plug & Play brings smart manufacturing to Thaioil

Thaioil, Thailand’s largest oil refinery and supplier of petroleum products, has partnered with Plug & Play Tech Center, a Silicon Valley-based innovation platform, to drive business growth and accelerate [...]

ADB lends Meghalaya $133m to upgrade power distribution

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $132.8m loan to improve power quality, install smart meters and upgrade the power distribution network in India’s north-eastern state of Meghalaya. [...]

Schneider and SolarEdge manage energy for smart homes

Schneider Electric has formed a technological and commercial partnership with SolarEdge Technologies to accelerate the residential solar market in North America by providing homeowners with seamless energy management for [...]

1NCE and Trilliant partner on smart meter connections

Trilliant, a North Carolina-based provider of smart communications in the IoT, smart energy and smart city space, is partnering with 1NCE to deliver low-cost cellular connectivity designed to make [...]

Schneider adds smart solar edge devices

Schneider Electric Solar has expanded its energy management ecosystem with smart edge devices. As part of Insight, the French company’s energy management ecosystem, InsightHome and InsightFacility can provide simplified [...]

Delta goes to university to test EV and grid balancing

Delta, a Taiwanese specialist in power and thermal management, is collaborating with Brandenburg University of Technology on an on-site proof-of-concept to test the feasibility of enabling a smart grid [...]

NES increases energy efficiency in Switzerland

Networked Energy Services (NES), a California-based smart grid provider, is deploying its integrated hardware and software for dual relay control for Swiss business and residential consumers. This allows DSOs [...]

Genus and NanoLock partner on smart meter security

Genus Power and NanoLock Security are working together to secure smart meters and prevent utility cyber attacks and fraud. Israeli firm NanoLock’s device-level product is bringing cyber protection and [...]

MDS makes it So for smart meters

Morrison Data Services (MDS), a data services provider to the energy and water market, has been awarded a smart meter contract with UK renewable energy supplier So Energy. MDS [...]

Trilliant expands partnership for Nolan AMI network

Trilliant, a North Carolina-based provider of communications platforms and software for advanced metering and smart grid systems, has expanded its partnership with Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative for its advanced [...]

Smart energy funding tops $3bn in Q3 2020, says Mercom

Global corporate funding for the battery storage, smart grid and energy efficiency sectors in the third quarter of 2020 came to $3.2bn compared with $1.2bn in Q2, according to [...]