Schwarzenegger: Smart phones to track, control energy usage

California governor discusses new smart grid technologies aimed at helping to reduce energy consumption and fight global warming. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently previewed technologies that let people use smart phones to better monitor their energy usage while they are away at work.

IBM's Smart Meters

Smart Grid Energy Meter Monitoring using NI - Demo

CleanEdge: Smart Grid Job trends 2009

Smart Grid Jobs Story
PG&E has catered a portion of its PowerPathway employee training program to help communities and educational institutions attract and train a cleanenergy workforce. This effort will becrucial, considering that PG&E will need a large, specialized workforce to deploy and maintain new cleantechnology projects.

Organizations to watch:

Cisco Systems
http://www.cisco.com/
IBM
http://www.ibm.com/
Silver Spring Networks
http://www.silverspringnetworks.com/
Tendril Networks
http://www.tendrilinc.com/
Trilliant
http://www.trilliantinc.com/


Smart Grid related Jobs:

· Advanced Metering Engineer
· Energy Analytics Manager
· Grid Application Systems Analyst
· Lead Architect – AMI and Smart Grid Technology
· Network Operations Center (NOC) Technician
· Smart-Grid Solution Expert

Source: Link

Taiwan aims to lead on 'smart grids'

Taiwan's biggest power company, telecom operator and IT firms are designing metering and communication systems to link air conditioners and lighting systems with computers and mobile phones. Efficiency gains from the scheme could save millions of tons of carbon emissions.

The technologies will enable property owners to set "energy budgets" for their buildings, send electricity price change updates to consumers via cable TV or mobile phone, and let telecoms firms start providing power optimisation services. These systems are likely to be crucial to recently announced moves in Britain, the US and China to build "smart grids", because Taiwan develops and manufactures many of the world's electronic chips and components.

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e-Energy 2010: Call for Papers

e-Energy 2010

1st Int'l Conf. on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking
http://www.e-energy-conf.org/
In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

University of Passau, Germany
April 13-15, 2010

Full paper submission due: October 30, 2009
Visionary paper submission due: November 8, 2009
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* General Co-Chairs:
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley (USA)
David Hutchison, Lancaster University (UK)

* TPC Co-Chairs:
Hermann de Meer, Passau University (Germany)
Suresh Singh, Portland State University (USA)
Torsten Braun, Bern University (Switzerland)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Instrumentation and measurement of energy-efficient computing and networking
- Energy and performance profiling, accounting of energy consumption
- Metrics, benchmarks, interfaces, tools
- Monitoring and management concepts
- Energy, performance, quality of service and other resource tradeoffs
- Energy-efficient networking and protocols
- Energy-efficient peer-to-peer networking and overlays
- Future energy-efficient architectures
- Energy-efficient application design
- Load, heat, and resource modeling
- Load, heat, and resource management
- Reliability and power management
- Energy-efficient grid, cloud, and data-center technology
- Energy-efficiency and virtualization
- Energy-efficiency, resource sharing and security
- SmartGrids: new computing and networking contributions
- Sensing techniques and sensor networks for energy awareness
- Energy-efficient network components (switches, routers etc.)
- Design methodologies and tools for energy-efficient services
- Security challenges in energy-efficient computing and networking
More: e-Energy Conference