This month the Council of European Energy Regulators published its “Advice” on how smart meters can enable demand response throughout Europe.
CEER concluded that to guarantee active participation by customers, smart meters are needed. This means making metering data available more frequently, and fostering customers’ deep awareness of both consumption and injection behaviors (e.g. wind and solar energy produced by energy consumers). These are not possible with electromechanical meters…
Last night, when describing his vision for America, President Obama told the story of Jackie Bray, a single mom from Charlotte, N.C. who was laid off from her job. Then someone stepped up in her community and opened a gas turbine factory, started a job training program at the local college, paid her tuition — and hired her to work in their plant.
That company was Siemens. I’ve never been prouder to work for any company (which I’ve now done for all of two weeks, since Siemens acquired eMeter).
