With some outside-the-box thinking and a hefty pinch of luck, National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists have come up with a new way to make solar cells that they say is likely to lead to more efficient and cheaper cells than those in use today.

After 17 months of work, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its first guidelines for Smart Grid cyber security. They include high-level security requirements, risk assessment, an evaluation of privacy issues, grid protection strategies and more.

In response to hundreds of consumer complaints about high electric bills occurring about the same time PG&E began rolling out smart meters, the California PUC commissioned the Structure Group to conduct an independent evaluation of the accuracy of the PG&E smart meters. This exhaustive report, an important read klsdfor industry…

By the fall of 2009, the California PUC had logged more than 600 consumer complaints about higher than expected electric bills after installation of PG&E smart meters. In response, the CPUC commissioned the Structure Group to conduct an independent evaluation of the accuracy of those meters. This is the executive…