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4/01/2013

Featured Articles » In England, 12,000 Utility Customers Consider the Grid's New Capabilities » Texas House of Representatives Gets Heated Over Smart Meters » $46 Million in Funding Sustains 'Intense Solar Activity' in New York State   Sponsored By: M2M Evolution Conference & Expo – August 26-29, 2013   Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino Conference Center – Las Vegas, NV3 M2M Evolution highlights how M2M technologies, the Internet of Things and the wireless network combine to significantly improve business processes, minimize risk, and drive revenue. Join us in Las Vegas for this two track program focused on providing you with information on how M2M solves business problems across multiple industries and in nearly all business functional areas. Conference sessions will focus on the retail and energy verticals as well as applications in big data, security and logistic functions (including transportation, fleet management and demand response). Members of the M2M ecosystem, including wireless carriers, application providers, platform companies, and device manufacturers will discuss their roles in creating effective technologies and procedures that work to create an ecosystem for actionable data, information and efficiencies.   Top Stories » Colombia Gets Smart with US Support of Smart Grid Development » Government Renewable Energy Policies are Under Attack » The British are Coming! National Grid Begins Energy Revolution in Massachusetts   From The Expert Corner April 01, 2013 Silver Spring Networks and CPS Energy Team up for Smart City Initiative By Cheryl Kaften TMCnet Contributor CPS Energy—the largest gas and electric combined U.S. municipal utility, based in San Antonio– and Silver Spring Networks, a developer of next-generation infrastructure, have partnered to support San Antonio’s smart grid development, with an initiative that will help drive increased energy efficiency, automate energy distribution, and improve grid reliability. Through this partnership, CPS Energy and Silver Spring Networks will lay the groundwork to implement smart energy and smart city technology across CPS Energy’s 1,566-square-mile service area. Silver Spring Networks provides a high-performance IPv6-based network that establishes a communications foundation for all of a city’s assets. Its high-bandwidth capabilities enable support for a myriad of solutions— including smart energy metering, smart street lighting, environmental sensors, and smart traffic signals. The partnership will support San Antonio’s New Energy Economy initiative with a modern, reliable, secure and efficient energy infrastructure built to power the next generation of economic growth and productivity. In addition to advanced metering infrastructure, CPS Energy also will leverage Silver Spring’s standards-based smart grid networking platform to roll out a distribution automation initiative across the service territory and extend availability of CPS Energy’s demand reduction programs... Read More      Featured Videos GreenPeak Shows Smart Home Solutions    Featured Resources » How Oracle Fusion Middleware Can Address Data Challenges OEMs & ISVs Face Designing and Deploying Smart Grid Solutions   Featured Channels » Smart Grid » Solar Power » Renewable Energy   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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