December 5, 2009

12/5 Energy & Environment Links


Lockheed Expands Its Smart Grid Wings
Lockheed Martin, which has been expanding into smart grid and alternative energy for the past year, said today that it will work with a series of utilities – including PPL Electric Utilities, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative and Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative – on implementing security solutions for the grid.
Solar Plant in Space Gets Go-Ahead
California regulators on Thursday went where no regulators have gone before — approving a utility contract for the nation’s first space-based solar power plant.
SmartSynch Launches Universal Smart Grid Router
Is it “the Rosetta Stone of the smart grid?” Well, that’s a tall order, but smart grid network company SmartSynch says it’s launching a “universal” router for the smart grid, dubbed GridRouter, that can connect various networks, products and languages to help create an open ecosystem for the next-generation version of the digital power grid. The Internet Protocol-based GridRouter can act as a bridge between proprietary smart grid devices from companies, says SmartSynch.

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