From 13th -14th September, Europe’s leading grid distribution specialists will share their insights into the projects and challenges connected to realising the Smart Grid vision.

Cumulative global capital expenditure by utilities on intelligent smart grid infrastructure will reach US$376 billion by the end of 2025, according to a new report by Innovation Observatory. This spend is in addition to basic upgrading of transmission and distribution infrastructure – it is for the intelligent smart grid alone.  Billions of dollars will be [...]

36 million smart gas meter units, such as the EverBlu being trialed in France, could join the smart grid, further reducing energy consumption and allowing more consumers to monitor their power usage.   An August 9 report from market intelligence group Pike Research predicts that the global installation of smart gas meters will grow from around [...]

Senior House lawmakers opened their hearing with oil company executives by blasting them as equally unprepared to cope with major offshore spills.

Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee holding the hearing, lambasted what he called lax industry-wide readiness to respond to spills.

The UK will miss its 2020 emission reduction targets by 150 million tonnes of CO2 per year unless it dramatically transforms the way it produces and consumes electricity. “Energy regulation in the UK is still based on old technologies and needs to be transformed if the UK is to reduce energy consumption sufficiently,” said David Eurin, Head of Energy Consulting at Analysys Mason (www.analysysmasonenergy.com).

Novartis announced today the completion of the new 1 megawatt (MW) solar array near its Vacaville biopharmaceutical site. The announcement was made at a ceremony which celebrated the collective effort of state and local officials, employees and business partners in championing the approval, construction and completion of the $7 million dollar power plant. The five [...]

More than 25 Eli Lilly and Company facilities around the world celebrated “Energy Day,” which is a new corporate sustainability effort designed to educate Lilly employees about the company’s latest energy reduction goals and to encourage sustainable behaviors. Lilly reached the energy goal it previously set two years early. Over a five-year period, from 2004 [...]

The issue of food security for the UK is climbing up the political agenda as climate change and the steady rise in global population put pressure on the world’s ability to produce enough to go round. A government dossier published this week acknowledges that while the densely populated country is never likely to be self-sufficient, [...]