Smart-grid companies feel growing pains An early mover in the smart grid, GridPoint is expanding into commercial energy management, a sign of how slowly utilities are adopting smart-grid technology.

Simply put, the type of companies within the GRID portfolio benefit from both organic growth tailwinds and the incremental momentum of smart grid technology adoption.

Silver Spring Networks, a flush smart metering company, is one of Google's first investments in its newly-created venture fund. The company develops networking boards for power meters that monitor ...

FPL turned to smart elecric grid technologies to limit outages, improve response, and reduce costs of responding to storms and everyday transformer trips.

SINGAPORE] SP Group announced on Friday (Aug 29) that it is now the sole owner of Power Automation after acquiring Siemens’ stake in the joint venture. Read more at The Business Times.

Utility industry grapples with smart-grid tech In a survey, utility industry executives say they want certainty over regulations and are struggling with how best to invest in new technologies.

Smart grid technology is typically defined as any information technology that helps power companies more efficiently monitor power demand and allocate capacity.

While world leaders slug it out over a new U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen, companies involved in smart grid technologies are attracting attention for their potential to cut emissions and costs.

The company plans to invest nearly $900 million to deploy the smart-meter infrastructure in Ohio and Indiana and apply for federal stimulus funding to cover part of the project cost, said Todd ...

We write a lot about the smart grid–a catch-all phrase that essentially refers to a method of delivering electricity from suppliers to consumers using two-way digital technology that controls in ...