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- Smart meters spark push to uncap price
- by Duncan Hughes. The Australian Financial Review, 17 June 2008. "Expected benefits from the roll-out of of smart meters might not eventuate without the removal of retail price regulation, industry groups warned yesterday after energy ministers decided to press ahead with the multibillion-dollar project last week..."
Added: 18 June 2008;
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- $5m Country Energy smart meter trial comes to NSW
- by Liam Tung. ZDNet Australia, 18 April 2008. "Country Energy is seeking 10,000 residents to join a smart meter pilot program which aims to allow consumers to monitor energy consumption -- but don't expect to see the technology installed any time soon..."
Added: 21 April 2008;
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- City water plugs leaks with CMS
- IT centralises management of SCADA, GIS and IVR, by Darren Pauli. Computerworld, 4 April 2008. "City West Water has reduced maintenance costs, eliminated paper based reporting and increased responsiveness with an integrated job management system and a new fleet of Next G handsets. The government agency provides water and sewerage management for 1 million homes and businesses in the greater Melbourne CBD area..."
Added: 4 April 2008;
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- Energy Australia's WiMAX rollout fits the bill
- No more power estimates with new open-source network, by Darren Pauli. Computerworld, 3 April 2008. "Energy Australia is slashing maintenance costs and improving outage recovery times with the country's first wireless smart metering system. The system will transmit power usage and maintenance data from two million digital smart meters across NSW and Queensland to a central database over a WiMAX and fibre optic network..."
Added: 4 April 2008;
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- Meters may not be so smart for environment
- by Josh Gordon and Mathew Murphy. The Age, March 13, 2008. "Victoria's plan to roll out "smart" electricity meters to 2.4 million homes and small businesses across the state could inadvertently trigger an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a report has found. A major study commissioned by state and federal energy ministers also raises doubts about the claimed economic benefits of the scheme, with the roll-out expected to cost as much as $5.5 billion nationally by the time it is completed in 2016, for very little gain..."
Added: 17 March 2008;
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- Burbank Water and Power Deploys Wi-Fi-Enabled SmartMeters
- Government Technology, October 22, 2007. "Because electricity reserve margins are diminishing and transmission grids are reaching their maximum load capacity, Burbank Water and Power (BWP) - in collaboration with SmartSynch - has begun deploying Wi-Fi-enabled SmartMeters, which will operate on a new municipal Wi-Fi network deployed by BWP. The utility serves 45,000 households and 6,000 businesses in Burbank, Calif., with water and electricity. Once fully deployed, the municipal Wi-Fi network will cover the entire city and SmartSynch's Wi-Fi-enabled SmartMeters will monitor BWP's entire energy load..."
Added: 25 October 2007;
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- Leeds to fit smart energy meters
- Kablenet, 21 August 2007. "Leeds City Council is installing more than 250 smart meters in public buildings across the city. It expects that the meters will provide the council with timely and accurate information about its electricity consumption..."
Added: 28 August 2007;
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- SA Water goes mobile
- By Renai LeMay. ZDNet Australia, 19 February 2007. "SA Water has unveiled a project to equip its field force with upgraded technology in an effort to enhance data collection and improve efficiency..."
Added: 19 February 2007;
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- Water companies set to tap GIS data from Ordnance Survey
- Public Technology, 9 February 2007. "Ordnance Survey has announced the signing of a contract securing the use of OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 for two of the UK's leading water suppliers. Bristol Water and Wessex Water, which between them serve over 3.5 million people, have access to the most detailed and accurate spatial addressing information in the country, allowing them to better track their assets and provide improved customer service..."
Added: 12 February 2007;
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- Water utility maps out CAD-GIS gap
- by Darren Pauli. Computerworld, 11 September 2006. "Victorian-based utility City West Water (CWW) has implemented a new Computer Aided Design (CAD) application and Geographic Information System (GIS) to bridge proprietary formatting problems..."
Added: 11 September 2006;
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- The first major interactive smart energy-metering trial starts up
- Public Technology, 27 April 2006. "The UK's first major interactive smart metering trial in the residential sector was launched yesterday by Elliot Morley, Defra Minister for Climate Change and Environment. The EDF Energy Smart Metering Trial, which is being managed in conjunction with fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), will see up to 3,000 electricity and gas smart meters being installed in homes over two years, with the first one being installed at a home in Earlsfield near Wimbledon, London. The meters being installed under the NEA DEMIA (Domestic Environmental Management in Action) project, provides a means of generating accurate bills without estimating and provide customers and EDF Energy with information about how energy can be saved in the home and the impact on household bills..."
Added: 2 May 2006;
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