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IoT gets a boost from Cisco in Barcelona (and more smart grid developments)

This week’s collection of smart grid wins makes up for its brevity with variety, from IoT and transmission to metering, a new partnership on cybersecurity and grants for community microgrids in California.

PROJECTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

Cisco plans to open a new center dedicated to Internet of Things research in Barcelona, through a partnership with the city’s government. Cisco plans to invest about $30 million in the center between 2015 and 2020, particularly on IT equipment, employee hiring and maintenance. 

As part of its Power for the Plains capital expansion, Xcel Energy is investing $106.7 million in new substations and high-voltage transmission lines in the South Texas Plains that should be mostly completed by year's end. The company says the investment is a response to growing demand from farmers and ranchers to provide additional power for irrigation purposes. 

 

Landis+Gyr will provide smart meter products and software solutions to energy utility RWE in Poland for installation in residential buildings in the city ofWarsaw. Deliveries will begin in September, with system installation scheduled for the end of 2014.

 

ABB has won an order worth about $35 million from Hydro-Québec to upgrade the 350 megawatt Madawaska high-voltage direct current transmission link. The link connects the grids of New

Brunswick and Hydro Québec in southeast Canada. 

Global energy solutions provider AMSC announced that ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, has agreed to develop a deployment plan for AMSC’s high temperature superconductor technology to build a superconducting cable system that will strengthen Chicago’s electric grid. 

PARTNERSHIPS

Waterfall Security Solutions, which specializes in critical infrastructure and industrial control systems security, and global energy management specialist Schneider Electric will work together to bring stronger-than-firewall cybersecurity technologies to Schneider Electric customers. 

 

GRANTS AND FINANCE

The California Energy Commission is offering up to $26.5 million for projects that demonstrate the reliable integration of energy efficient demand-side resources, distributed clean energy generation and smart grid components to promote energy-smart community development. The notification calls for projects that demonstrate low-carbon-based microgrids for critical facilities, high-penetration renewable-based microgrids and advanced smart vehicle charging.