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Duke signs with Ambient for US$10.7 million worth of 'smart grid'
April 8, 2008
Duke Energy signed with Ambient for a utility network to connect 57,000 Echelon power meters. The deal is for engineering and network support, the use of Ambient's network management system called . . . keep reading

New Visions weighs where to spend grant money
April 1, 2008
New York BPL integrator/operator New Visions hasn't decided on a brand of BPL for its planned expansion from 5,500 homes passed near . . . keep reading

Computerworld Malaysia reports progress on Indonesian BPL
April 1, 2008
The publication published an article online Friday reporting three major deals were signed by Malaysian firm Velchip for its planned . . . keep reading

Columbian utility BPL deployments to use BPL Global gear
April 1, 2008
BPL Global joined a partnership with Broadband Power Line Communications Latin America (BPLCLA), a firm that provides voice . . . keep reading

Bell Aliant picks Corinex ‘anywire’ for IPTV
April 1, 2008
Canadian telecom giant Bell Aliant picked Corinex gear to network its Aliant TV service through customers' homes from DSL modems to . . . keep reading

Motorola's new box-less BPL serves tens of thousands of hotel rooms
April 1, 2008
Swisscom's Hospitality Services subsidiary signed a distribution agreement to deploy Motorola's mT2a PowerBroadband BPL system in . . . keep reading

Dallas DirecTV BPL saga ends well
April 1, 2008
A technology blog published by the Dallas Morning News newspaper's website recently published a letter describing the trials of a . . . keep reading

Why BPL is still the best hope as an alternative to the duopoly
April 1, 2008
EDITOR'S COMMENTS: We don't usually take up a lot of space with editor's comments unless they seem really needed, but two stories in . . . keep reading

Australia's broadband minister urges power industry to act now
April 1, 2008
Australia's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy urged the nation's power industry to put . . . keep reading

One tenth of US to have 10 mbps by 2012
April 1, 2008
33 Million US homes will have a broadband connection of 10 mbps of higher by 2012 and that will boost the popularity of high-definition . . . keep reading

EnerNOC wins patent for networking distributed generation
The US Patent and Trademark Office issued a business method patent to EnerNOC called "Aggregation of Distributed Energy Resources," the . . . keep reading

PG&E explains how to ease load at growing data centers
April 1, 2008
Serving Silicon Valley and being in the most efficiency-centric state in the country have made Pacific Gas & Electric take the lead on data . . . keep reading

CORRECTION
April 1, 2008
Several facts in our Yitran story last week are worth correcting here including the Panasonic that the firm deals with is National . . . keep reading

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NARUC smart grid group picked . . . keep reading

Nebraska petition to lift BPL ban faces dramatic obstacles
November 13, 2007
Linda Aerni made good on her promise to take a petition to the people of Nebraska to lift the ban on municipal broadband in general and specifically BPL . . . keep reading

BPL is fast, affordable answer to safety of aging US infrastructure
August 14, 2007
The bridge collapse in Minneapolis two weeks ago and the steam pipe explosion in New York City a few week prior put the aging US infrastructure of roads and utility equipment on center stage for the general public and press . . . keep reading

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