Siemens Moves Into Electric Vehicle Smart Charging

Add electric vehicle smart charging to the long list of products that German energy and engineering giant Siemens wants to tackle for the smart grid. Siemens says it will partner with startup Coulomb Technologies and jointly sell Siemen’s smart grid IT products with Coulomb’s EV charging stations.

The Smart Grid Acquisition Tally . . . So Far

With ABB’s billion-dollar-acquisition of smart grid software maker Ventyx this week, it got us thinking about how hawt the smart grid M&A market has been. Here’s a tally of what’s (publicly) gone down over the past couple of years.

ABB Throws Down Over $1B for Smart Grid Software Maker Ventyx

Swiss electrical equipment giant ABB has jumped feet first into the smart grid with the plan to purchase software maker Ventyx (from Vista Equity Partners) for over $1 billion, the companies announced this morning. Ventyx makes software for energy analytics, operations, and forecasting, among other applications.

An LED Powerhouse To Watch: Lemnis Lighting

Warner Philips, the co-founder of Lemnis Lighting and great grandson of the founder of Philips electronics, says his company will launch a full suite of LED products at a Las Vegas lighting convention next month, and eventually “An IPO is one of the opportunities for us.”

Trilliant’s All-In-One Smart Grid Network

In the world of smart grid, there tends to be two kinds of networks — short range local area networks (LANs) that connect neighborhoods of smart meters together, and bigger-pipe “backhaul” wide-area networks (WANs) to carry that collected data back to the utility. But wait — there’s also a third kind of utility network, a super [...]

EnerNOC Eyes Business Beyond Demand Response

EnerNOC is a big name in the world of demand response — that is, turning down buildings’ energy use to help utilities shave peak power demands. But it’s also been making its way — and buying its way — into energy efficiency, carbon management and energy supply chain services, and on Wednesday it launched its [...]

Will Echelon Link Smart Meters & Smart Building Controls?

Echelon makes smart meter networks and building automation systems. Could it bring the two businesses together? On Wednesday, Echelon shipped its 2 millionth smart meter, adding recent contracts with a host of Danish utilities and partners to its big list of European clients — and, on the other side of the Atlantic, its contract with [...]

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