In this past quarter, for example, Japanese industrial giant Mitsui invested in smart-grid company Viridity Energy.
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Another portfolio company, smart grid company Silver Spring Networks, filed to go public in July.
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More than a grid company, ABB makes more electric motors and energy-saving motor controls called drives than any other company in the world.
Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks, which set the terms of its IPO earlier this week, is the latest clean-tech company aiming to provide a jolt to the industry.
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All told, electricity demand in these regions is likely to exceed supply by an estimated 19 million kilowatts (kW) in the summer, according to estimates by regional power distributor East China Grid Company.
Award-winning Scottish theatre company Grid Iron has a new, interactive performance which will lead the audience to an "out of this world" location on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Just two technology firms have held initial public offerings this year: "smart grid" energy company Silver Spring Networks Inc. last week and social network Professional Diversity Network LLC the week before.
Being an on-site power system allows users to run independently of the public utility grid, ensuring that, no matter what happens to the grid, a company will not lose power and will continue to operate.
Ultimately, the company expects grid sales to represent 40% of total sales.
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The rate hikes are designed to recover costs incurred by the company for grid modernization, upgrades in distribution systems, and manufacturing natural gas plants.
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The company hosts a grid of servers that it divides up and rents to clients in packages designed especially to satisfy their hardware needs.
Vettel will be in distinguished company on the grid when the season begins in Australia next month, with six former world champions competing in the same season for the first time.
Gerald Draper and his colleagues at the University of Oxford, and John Swanson of National Grid Transco, a power-transmission company, have looked at the distribution of childhood cancer along the power lines of the national electricity grid in England and Wales.
The company successfully completed a grid connection of a wave energy device in the US a year ago.
Sun itself hosts Network.com, a pay-per-use online service offering mathematical and engineering applications launched last March and hosted on what the company calls the Sun Grid.
Helen Mahy, one of only a handful of women General Counsels in the UK, has agreed to become chairwoman of Obelisk's advisory board when she retires from her job as group company secretary at National Grid next year.
Last week PJM Interconnection, the company that operates the electric grid for 13 states (Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia) held its 2015 capacity auction.
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In a statement, CEO David Vieau said the company has received multiple proposals for its grid business.
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I. (which stands for Prime View International, itself a subsidiary of a large paper company), marries it to an electronic grid, or backplane.
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The pylons in question have been designed by engineers at TenneT, the firm that runs the Netherlands' national electricity grid, in collaboration with KEMA, a Dutch research company.
But the quiet manufacturer behind a growing number of solar, smart grid and solar inverter companies is Flextronics, the same company that makes Blackberrys, the Redbox DVD rental kiosks and desktop computers for Lenovo, to name just a few of its customers.
The London-based research company says solar is viable against fossil fuels on the electric grid in the most sunny regions such as the Middle East.
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The company said in its IPO prospectus that the rate of smart-grid adoption has slowed due to the "timing and tax treatment" of U.S. government stimulus funding.
The company has become a prominent player in the so-called smart grid market because its communication technologies help utilities collect and manage energy consumption data from customers quickly.
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Despite the consolidation of hardware that grid computing could represent, Sun's Dutra isn't worried about the company's sales.
Alan McLaughlin, from Centrica Energy, said the company had failed to secure new contracts for the plants with the National Grid and closure was one option being considered as a result.
The company provides hardware, software and services for connecting utilities with devices on a power grid, including advanced metering and faster detection of outages and tools to improve the reliability of electrical grids.
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He said that whatever happens from National Grid's point of view it was a "large and complex project" and the company "needs to get on with the early design and development of the project".
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