Poll: 'Smarter' companies to muscle Big Six out of metering opportunity - 04 Oct 2011. Smart meter installations to near one billion by 2020 - 15 Aug 2011. Siemens Smart Grid Innovation Contest. In 2005 the European Union adopted the "Smart Grid" concept - a vision of intelligent, flexibly controllable electrical generation, distribution and consumption. Today Siemens globally provides technologies for this market and has demonstrated its capabilities in various projects. The breakthrough of Smart Grid applications strongly depends on attractive business models which combine the technologies and economic benefits for all stakeholders.
This contest aims at generating and further developing ideas into business models that have a great potential to contribute to a more customer-oriented and sustainable Smart Grid market, and making this a reality in the mid-term or even short-term. Therefore the contest is divided into two phases: Phase 1: Idea Contest (public) The Idea Contest lasts from April 13 to May 31, 2011 and is about collaborative idea development.
Phase 2: Call-for-Proposals (for universities) back to top learn more Idea-Contest. Smart Grid News - Grid Modernization and the Smart Grid. Smart meters. What will happen Vs. what could happen. Smart meters are the Next Big Thing at the Energy companies. Over the next 11 years every household in Britain will receive Smart Meters, one for gas and one for electricity. This project will be one of the largest infrastructure projects to have taken place since the Second World War. So says NPower. I’m going to get a Smart Meter? Whoppeeedo! Whilst the idea is compelling to the companies themselves, I don’t see them answering the question “so what” in a particularly compelling way.
(This calls to mind a quote from Jurassic Park where the Jeff Goldblum character says “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should”.) Just because I can control my boiler from my iPhone when I am away from home…. well why should I? That is not to write off smart meters. How about introducing gamification to the way people monitor their energy consumption. Yet might there be a different way? Dear Energy Provider. Image credit: Todd Smith. Smart Grid Privacy A Possible Problem States Energy Department « Revelations From An Unwashed Brain.