10 February 2012
Power on display
The power to manage electricity use is in the hands of Bega and Tathra residents as Essential Energy rolls out around 400 IN-Home Displays to customers this month. The IN-Home Displays are the next step in Essential Energy’s broader Intelligent Network Community Trial and an important customer component of the program.
16 December 2011
Intelligent Network trial lights the way
Essential Energy’s Intelligent Network project is beginning to radiate benefits in the Bega Valley with one aspect of the program – the trial of Light Emitting Diode (LED) streetlighting – showing significant energy consumption savings and improvements in public lighting.
29 August 2011
IN the loop with the Intelligent Network
Essential Energy is releasing the first edition of its Intelligent Network newsletter, IN The Loop, to keep the community up-to-date with the latest developments from the trial.
4 May 2011
Essential Energy invites residents to be part of Intelligent Network Trial
Around 2,000 eligible homes and businesses in Bega and Tathra will receive invitations this week to participate in Essential Energy’s first major Intelligent Network (IN) project in regional New South Wales.
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14 April 2011
Essential Energy targets Bega for energy smarts
Essential Energy today announced the establishment of a major Intelligent Network project in the south east New South Wales town of Bega.
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14 April 2011
Intelligent Infrastructure a bright idea in Bega
Essential Energy recently deployed an LED Streetlighting trial in the Sapphire Coast city, installing a number of new technology lights in the middle of the main street situated on the Princes Highway.
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10 December 2010
Smart grid forces transmission operators to find new, better tools, warns NERC report
The successful integration of smart grid technologies and devices can mean improved reliability for the bulk power system, but it's going to mean a lot of work for planners and operators to ensure that it works out that way.
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10 December 2010
Home area networks: Zigbee beats WiFi in cost, says GE
A GE research study has found that in terms of cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency, Zigbee's wireless communications technology tops WiFi technology. Researchers determined that WiFi used a little more than twice the power than Zigbee in home area network applications.
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