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Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round

Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding roundWe need energy conservation - not revenue generationThe biggest problem I see with this so-called smart-metering is that it is designed to generate revenue. It has nothing at all to do with power generation or energy conservation. It simply measures...

Tags: Operational accounting, revenue, Trilliant, grid player, energy conservation

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round

Trilliant, a green tech company that's working with about 100 utilities on various smart grid deployments, has just closed a $40 million round of equity funding from a group of investors including affiliates of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures. Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel characterizes the investment...

Tags: Green Technology, Ontario, Trilliant, Vogel, Government, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Additional Resources

IBM opens up systems framework for energy companies

IBM has designs on utility companies and other players in the smart grid and renewable energy world that are trying to see the big picture. The company is introducing a framework called the IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework SAFE, which acts as an integration...

Tags: Utility Company, Industry, Energy Company, IBM Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Over Power Line, GIS, Strategy, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Software, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Smart grid player Trilliant snags more support from IBM

Smart grid technology developer Trilliant has integrated its management platform and tools with IBM's WebSphere and Tivoli product lines. This isn't a simple technology support relationship: Trilliant is actually including WebSphere and Tivoli in UnitySuite, which is essentially a data center level dashboard that is focused on companies working on...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, IBM Corp., Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Smart grid meets wireless mesh

Energy management technology company Trilliant, which claims the single-largest smart grid project in North America, has bought SkyPilot Networks, which makes long-range wireless mesh gear. The rationale: The acquisition gives Trilliant a foundation for extending its smart grid solutions to virtually any place at bandwidth speeds that...

Tags: Network, Grid, Wireless, SkyPilot Networks, WiMAX, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-28

News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Smart grid players extend their influence beyond the pilot phase

When it comes to real market potential in the green tech space, smart grid-related technology is right up there. In any given week, I could post a half-dozen blogs about developments in this world. Echelon, in particular, has had a very busy summer, inking a new deal in Denmark, expanding...

Tags: Echelon, Project Deployment, Pricing, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-21