Promoting a Peak Pricing Program: PG&E's Success Story - TMCnet's Smart Grid eNews

9/05/2013

Featured Articles » Feeling Hot Under the Collar? An Office 'Personal Comfort System' is on the Way » PPL Smart Grid Demo Project Improves Service Reliability by 38 Percent » Ameren Illinois Offers Inventors of Smart Devices a Live Grid Test Facility » O&R to Provide Big Apple Commuter Towns with Smarter Grid   Sponsored By: Redhat WEBINAR: Using Distributed Storage to Develop a Data Availability Solution Across Private, Public clouds and traditional datacenters. Wednesday September 18, 2013 2:00 PM EDT/ 11:00 AM PDT SIGN UP TODAY! Enterprise IT is diverging because of growing business needs with deployments in traditional virtualized datacenters and on private clouds powered by OpenStack and public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS). This raises the question of data availability across these platforms and is a growing challenge for architects and administrators in IT organizations. Essential to addressing this challenge is to build upon an open and highly-scalable storage platform. In this session, you'll learn how a distributed scale-out storage platform, like Red Hat Storage (gluster) , can be used for data availability between traditional data centers, OpenStack clouds and AWS. Key takeaways include identification of technical challenges and pitfalls, and solution architectures with use cases. Who should attend: IT Managers Enterprise architects Solution architects Application architects System/Storage administrators   Top Stories » Ecobee Joins Network of Southern California Edison Smart Thermostat Providers » Smart Grid Market to Surpass $4B Worldwide by 2020 » NREL's Open-Source 'DataBus' Tracks Power Usage at Any Size Facility   From The Expert Corner September 05, 2013 Promoting a Peak Pricing Program: PG&E's Success Story By Cheryl Kaften TMCnet Contributor How did Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)—the investor-owned utility that services most of the northern two-thirds of California— sign up 100,000 ratepayers for SmartRate, its critical peak pricing plan?   The Association for Demand Response & Smart Grid (ADS), a Washington, D.C.-based trade association, has released a new case study, funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, that examines how and why the voluntary program for residential customers has become a success. Read More    Featured Videos HP Vertica speaks with M2M Evolution about their Analytics Platform    Featured Resources » M2M for Industrial Remote Asset Monitoring » Real-time Data from Remote Machines » The Five Must-Haves of Big Data Storage   Featured Channels » Smart Grid » Green Technology » Machine to Machine Technology   Visit smart-grid.tmcnet.com for the Latest Smart-Grid News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Smart-Grid Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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