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Fortnightly Magazine - May 2010

Vendor Neutral

T&D and Smart Grid

The ZigBee Alliance and the Wi-Fi Alliance entered an agreement to collaborate on wireless home area networks (HAN) for smart-grid applications. The initial focus of the collaboration will be ZigBeeSmart Energy Profile 2.0, which is the next-generation energy management protocol for smart grid-enabled homes based on today’s successful ZigBeeSmart Energy Profile. The ZigBeeSmart Energy Profile 2.0 is expected to be extended to operate over Wi-Fi technology as a result of the collaboration.

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Solar Eclipse

Wind faces a nano-scale threat.

For decades now, wind turbines have been generating electricity more cheaply than most other (non-hydro) renewable energy technologies. In particular, wind has maintained a comfortable lead over solar energy in the price-per-kWh race. That’s destined to change.

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Michael T. Burr, Editor-in-Chief

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People (May 2010)

Duke Energy named Catherine Heigel to the new position of president of its South Carolina service region. Exelon promoted David C. Brown to senior v.p., federal government affairs and public policy, leading the company’s Washington, D.C., office. CMS Energy promoted John G. Russell to CMS Energy and Consumers Energy president and CEO from president and COO of Consumers Energy. And others.
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