The Plan will keep California one step ahead as it readies for a more environmentally friendly transmission grid powered ultimately by more than 100,000 gigawatt-hours of renewable resources.

Costs are still disproportionally high relative to technical capabilities and added value. Worthy of mention, also, is the fact is that the auto industry is only slowly recovering from the economic downturn.

In a spirited speech delivered at the Eurelectric Conference in Brussels, Oettinger said he was convinced that much improved market integration is the only way Europe can reach its overarching policy objectives.

Additional Consumer-Friendly Education Needed as Only 4 Percent of Respondents ?Really Familiar? with Smart Grid Benefits and Challenges.

ABB and Sensus have announced a new partnership agreement that will allow the two companies to better collaborate on delivering enhanced Smart Grid solutions to customers.

Plug-in electric vehicles represent a significant new set of power users that grid operators must prepare to serve. PEVs also might lead to game-changing innovations in energy distribution and smart grid.

French state-controlled electricity group Electricite de France SA (EDF.FR) and Swedish group Volvo AB’s (VOLV-B.SK) unit Renault Trucks Monday announced they signed a partnership to develop the use of electric vehicles.

Houston-based housing developer Land Tejas Communities has announced that the U.S. DOE has awarded $13.5 million to the non-profit Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET).

IBM announced an agreement with the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to evaluate the potential impact of electric vehicles on the UK electricity grid.

But when you plug in your electric car, what’s going to happen? With the introduction of electric cars on a large scale, for the first time the power grid would also have significant battery storage capacity.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are likely to play an important role in New Zealand?s future as consumers seek cleaner and cheaper options to petrol and diesel.

GE (NYSE: GE) agrees with the Federal Communications Commission?s (FCC) National Broadband Plan announcement?s clear recognition of the need for improving the communications infrastructure to modernize the electric grid.

Imagine the scenario: bulbs, washing machine and air-conditioner in your house could automatically switch to operate in an energy-saving manner at peak times of power use when electricity rates heighten.

It is unfortunate to see another recitation of the myth that “the backup generation necessary when the wind stops blowing can generate more pollution than what was saved originally.”

Beacon Power Corporation (Nasdaq: BCON) announced that it has shipped, installed and successfully connected a Smart Energy? 25 (Gen 4) flywheel energy storage system at a wind farm in Tehachapi, California.

An innovative group of research institutes and businesses has today been assigned to run the ‘E-mobility in commuter traffic’ development project for the Rhine-Ruhr Model Region.