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Smart City Interview with Stephen Hilton, Futures Director at Bristol City Council
May 22nd, 2015Ericsson & Landis+Gyr partner on Smart Grids in the Middle East
February 5th, 2015
China Leads, The US Slows and India Emerges in the Smart Grid Market
Global smart grid investment reached $14.9 billion in 2013, up from the $14.2 billion recorded in 2012, and with final annual figures for 2014 soon to be released, the strong global growth trend is expected to continue this decade. Home automation companies received the most VC funding within the smart grid sector. The top disclosed […]
Energy Policy Sparks Creative Efficiency Programmes
Sometimes the system works. Sometimes public policy encourages responsible yet profitable action by the private sector, and that private sector action can lead to benefits for customers and the environment. The recently proposed energy efficiency program by Ameren, in the State of Missouri, might just become an example of that, despite the conservative figures. Ameren […]
Value of Smart Grid M&A Deals Grew from $10.6 billion in 2011 to $19.5 billion in 2012
In the space of six years, M&As have grown from $134 million in 2007 to $10.6 billion in 2011 to a near doubling in the value of deals at $19.5 billion in 2012. Both the growth and now scale indicate the supply side is gearing up to meet the requirements of new technology and forecast […]
State of the Smart Grid Business in 2013
Smart Grid sales across the world in the last 3 years at installed prices have grown by CAGR of approx. 35% and climbed to $36.5 billion in 2012. Given the general global economic demise during this period these figures are remarkable. However they include a steady flow of refurbishment business that has for more than […]
Why Negawatts & Distributed Energy Will Drive The Smart Building to Smart Grid Interface Business
At the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in London last week ministers from 23 economies – representing 90% of global renewables and efficiency investment, heard from the International Energy Agency that under current policies, carbon dioxide emissions will nearly double by 2050. “This would likely boost global temperatures by at least 6 degrees Celsius,” IEA deputy […]
Smart Grid Suppliers Position for the Big Move into Automatic Demand Response
The largest single area of expenditure that will have to be made in order to produce Smart Grid will be in Automatic Demand Response (ADR) on the transmission and distribution network. Our report http://memoori.com/smart-grid-2012 estimates that comprehensive ADR including communications between all digital devices, electrical conditioning, down to local controllers in commercial and industrial buildings […]
Will The Smart Grid be the Foundation for the Internet of Energy & “Other Things”?
In the quintessential small English village of Chorleywood, the local health centre has placed its first patient on their Hydra network of smart electricity meters and is now monitoring the weight and blood pressure of the patient in their own home. The system uses Zigbee wireless technology to send readings from the devices to the […]
Smart Grid may have to Pay for its Limited Horizons
Memoori’s new report The Smart Grid Business in 2011 to 2016 shows that the step by step approach to developing the Smart Grid applied in the last 5 years is flawed. What would Leonardo Da Vinci Have Done? When Leonardo Da Vinci was obliged to finish off his first version of “Virgin of the Rocks” […]
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