http://www.smartgrid.com/u-s-consumer-electricity-monitoring-by-source

http://ecoreport.co.uk/2013/03/balancing-supply-and-demand/

GE announced the availability of its CyberSentryTM SEM Security Event Manager, a cybersecurity management and monitoring system specifically designed to help guard substation power system assets from issues or outages occurring as a result of malicious attacks or human error.

http://www.smartgrid.com/ge-helps-protect-critical-power-systems-from-cyberattacks

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South Africa is embarking on a co-ordinated Smart Grid initiative with the South African National Energy Development providing leadership. We think SA will be very different once SANEDI's South Afican Smart Grids Initiative gains some momentum and shows impact on the national grid operator, Eskom, municipalities and end-customers. In the meantime we, including Eskom, municipalities and end-customers wait to take direction from SANEDI's SASGI leadership.

President Barack Obama will return to his home state March 15 to visit Argonne National Laboratory and discuss his energy policies. An official told the Tribune that the trip is intended to “focus on American energy,” and may or may not also include comments on the impact on facilities like Argonne of funding cuts caused by the current sequester.…

http://www.smartgrid.com/president-obama-nominates-ernest-moniz-mit-physicist-as-energy-secretary

http://www.smartgrid.com/top-smart-grid-articles-of-the-year-published-in-ieee-pes-reprint-journal

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http://www.smartgrid.com/smart-grid-receives-434-million-in-vc-funding-17-billion-in-ma-transactions-recorded

http://www.illinois.smartgrid.com/resources/videos

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The development of an offshore wind resource database is one of the first steps  necessary to understand the magnitude of the resource and to plan the  distribution and development of future offshore wind power facilities. The U.S.  Department of Energy supported the production of offshore wind resource maps and  potential estimates for much of the United States



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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Smart Grid Energy Research Center is creating a smart grid training workshop and certificate for utilities, industry and government.



According to UCLA, this workshop will integrate different aspects and topics within the umbrella of smart grid, including real-world technologies deployed, applications and use case studies. The first workshop will be held March 18-22.

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A new survey conducted by Pike Research white paper presents all of the survey responses as a basis for comparing consumer views of 13 energy and environmental topics to one another, and for gauging how those views have changed over time. 

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