CALMAC announced its support for The Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2009, H.R. 4210 (STORAGE Act of 2009). Introduced to the House by Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA-1] and Rep. David Wu [D-OR-1].

Vehicle-to-Grid Power: Challenges and Opportunities Delivers Comprehensive Understanding of the Business Opportunities and Challenges of V2G.

Nissan North America (NNA) announced its selection of AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) (AV) to supply electric vehicles home-charging stations and installation services supporting the introduction of electric car Nissan LEAF

NV Energy (NYSE:NVE) and Great Basin Transmission, LLC, an affiliate of LS Power, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly own a 500 kilovolt transmission line in Nevada.

China Southern Power Grid Company Adopts D-VAR Solution to Increase Grid Reliability. Xiamen Red Phase Instruments Inc. Becomes Channel Partner for AMSC.

Xcel Energy and GridPoint, Inc., today announced that 1.4 million residential Colorado utility customers now have access to the My Account site using GridPoint?s recently released home energy management solution.

The City of Yangzhou and GE (NYSE: GE) will be working together to help bring the benefits of smart grid technologies to China.

Chevrolet Volt First Electric Vehicle to Demonstrate Wireless Smartphone Application — Volt showcases technology beyond the battery with OnStar Mobile Application — OnStar created a mobile application for Volt.

The IEEE Standards Association announced the meeting of its P2030 Smart Grid Working Group for the power engineering, communications and information technology industries will take place January 26-29, 2010, in Detroit.

The network, made up of thousands of kilometres of highly efficient undersea cables that could cost up to ?30bn would solve one of the biggest criticisms faced by renewable power.

There is no reason at all to limit our concepts of grid energy storage and buffers to electricity and batteries?and many opportunities open up if we do not.

Pike Research announced the launch of its new Utility Innovations Advisory Service. More than 150,000 new and replacement wind turbines will be installed worldwide during the period from 2010 to 2015.

Smart grid may be the most hyped words of 2009 in the green tech space, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of hard, cold cash behind the hype.

NV Energy has selected the Sensus smart grid solution for its advanced metering infrastructure, and is expected to deploy as many as 1.3 million electric and 155,000 gas meters.

Networking and Communications, Energy Management, Grid Automation, and Advanced Metering Infrastructure.

Politics and the power of entrenched economic interests aside, the best way to reduce carbon emissions is to utilize the ever cleaner, greener, more renewable grid to power transportation.

Coulomb Technologies, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange and Pima Association of Governments? Clean Cities program announced the groundbreaking of Tucson?s second ChargePoint® Networked Charging Station for Electric Vehicles.

Currently holding over 60% of the $49 billion of the electric vehicles (EV) production and infrastructure development market, Europe has a strong role in today’s EV industry.