SMART GRID - Appliance Design

Silver Spring Networks Smart Energy Platform to Assist Indianapolis Power & Light Co. IPL is funding the project, in part, through a $20 million smart grid investment grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

Tennessee Utility Co. Chooses Smart Grid Technology Platform With so many technology platforms to choose from in the current market, wading through the pros and cons of each technology can be a laborious task.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. to Implement Smart Grid The project should provide $2.5 billion worth of savings to BGE customers.

AHAM Calls for New Efficiency Standards Home appliances manufacturers call for improved national efficiency standards and tax credits in the U.S.

Smart Meter Manufacturers Agree to Standards for the UK Three meter manufacturers reach an agreement to develop common approaches for smart communication standards.

Tendril Secures Smart Grid in 14 States The energy management provider gained 20 Smart Grid programs this year.

	Poor User Experiences with Smart Meters a Risk for Energy Suppliers? Smart meters could represent a fork in the road for energy suppliers.

One Step Closer to IP-Based Smart Products The IPSO Alliance announced the successful interoperability of two new elements of the IPv6 protocol for small, resource-constrained embedded devices known as “smart objects.”

Smart Appliances Aid Consumers and Utility Companies GE has developed a line of “smart” appliances that react to pricing signals from the utility company and delay or reduce wattage of high-consumption tasks until lower-cost, off-peak periods.

Study Finds Many Consumers Skeptical About Remote Home Appliance Management According to a study, consumers are unwilling to allow electricity providers to remotely limit the use of their home appliances without significant rate discounts.

U.S. Government to Provide $100 Million for Smart Grid Workforce Training The DOE will provide $100 million toward smart grid workforce training programs.

AHAM and CES Join Forces to Showcase Smart Appliances at CES 2011 The Connected Home Appliances TechZone, co-sponsored by CEA and the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) will have 10,000 square feet of exhibit space for manufacturers of next-generation appliances.

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New Group Promotes Smart Grid to Consumers To help build consumer acceptance and use of the smart grid, a group of smart grid leaders today announced the formation of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC).

ZigBee and Wi-Fi Alliances Collaborate on Smart Grid

The ZigBee Alliance and the Wi-Fi Alliance announced today an agreement to collaborate on wireless home area networks (HAN) for Smart Grid applications. The initial focus of the collaboration will be ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0, which is the next-generation energy management protocol for Smart Grid-enabled homes based on today's successful ZigBee Smart Energy Profile.

Smart Grid Revolution Disruptive for Utilities, Survey Says Only 8 percent of utilities around the world have completed their smart grid technology implementations while 37 percent have projects underway and more than half haven’t yet started, according to a new survey by Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash.

AHAM Testifies Before Senate on Smart Appliances On March 10, Joseph M. McGuire, president of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers testified before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee that S. 3059, the National Energy Efficiency Enhancement Act of 2010, opens the door to perhaps the most dramatic energy savings yet attributable to home appliances.

Smart Appliance Market to Hit $15 Billion in 2015 The global market for smart appliances is projected to grow to more than $15 billion by 2015, according to market research and consulting firm Zpryme, Austin, Texas. China, U.S., Australia, and U.K. are among the top markets for smart appliances to be purchased by ‘griders’ i.e. smart grid ‘active’ consumers.

Few Consumers Aware of Smart Grid and Smart Meters Utility companies across the U.S. are committing billions of dollars in projects to upgrade the electric grid and install new meters in homes and businesses.

NIST Wants Comments on Smart Grid

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has launched a public forum to solicit views on questions pertaining to the consumer interface to the nation’s evolving “smart” electric power grid. The solicitation below was announced in the Federal Register, Vol. 75, No. 33, February 19, 2010, under Notices.

GE Appliances Show Smart Side at Olympics GE Appliances & Lighting’s smart or smart-grid-enabled appliances are making a strong showing at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games – behind the scenes as well as in the public eye.

AHAM Says Consumers Are Key to Smart Grid At a panel discussion hosted by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) affirmed that consumers are the key to the development and effectiveness of the Smart Grid in the U.S.

Whirlpool Displays Smart Grid Clothes Dryer The Whirlpool smart dryer illustrates how smart grid-compatible dryers will operate in consumers homes, reacting intelligently to peak-demand signals from a smart electrical grid and automatically modifying energy consumption.

	Editorial: Searching for Smart Standards Engineers recognize an important reality of which the general public is mostly unaware, that the marvels of modern technology stand upon an unseen foundation of standards. by Richard Babyak

Springboard Engineering Receives Smart Grid Technology Grant Springboard Engineering, Inc., Newton, Iowa, a provider of engineering services to the consumer appliance, agricultural, medical device and other industries, announced it has been awarded a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history.

Whirlpool to Produce One Million Smart Grid Clothes Dryers by End of 2011 Whirlpool Corp., Benton Harbor, Mich., has announced that it will produce one million Smart Energy clothes dryers by the end of 2011, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant program.