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...Smart metering and wholesale cost recovery in the UK in 2021 should also help. We forecast recovery in EBIT margins to c3% by 2022....
...That is comparable to US-listed Itron, and what Xylem paid for Sensus, a water metering specialist, in 2016....
...The US water technology company has struck a deal to acquire Sensus, a provider of advanced metering technologies to utilities, for $1.7bn in cash....
...Panels are appearing on the roofs of homes all over the US, and about 1m now have solar systems....
...Nortek, which is listed in Delaware, also manufactures “home automation systems”....
...Melrose has been searching for acquisitions since completing the sale of Elster, a utility metering business, for £3.3bn last year....
...California, the largest solar market in the US and one of the largest in the world, in January agreed favourable new rules for “net metering” — the billing framework for electric utility customers who generate...
...NV Energy has proposed a complex system of different charges for customers taking advantage of net metering, which the solar companies say would put people off installing systems, in part simply because...
...Its findings later showed that about half of the Y55bn in overstated profits is due to an order Toshiba won in 2013 from Tokyo Electric Power to supply its smart metering system for 27m homes....
...What this really is, in other words, is a plan to bring a digital metering system to the internet....
...Black cab drivers argue that Uber’s use of GPS to calculate fares amounts to a metering system and therefore breaches laws forbidding minicabs from fitting meters....
...“At the same time, technology advances in metering, controls and end-use devices are making it easier for customers to participate in demand-response programmes and manage their energy usage,” he adds....
...The north African nation of Algeria has hired an American company, Itron, to upgrade the metering system for its electricity power network....
...It also envisages that electric vehicles could be used as a distributed storage system, which could be tapped into at peak periods....
...Sensus provides meters for electricity, water and gas and is working as part of a consortium, alongside BT, broadcast signal distribution specialist Arqiva and BAE Systems subsidiary Detica, on a pilot project...
...“But by no means should the system of long-term contracts that we have created be destroyed.”...
...Taking a single platform approach across all desktops means that tasks such as software metering, application updates and patch management can be controlled centrally....
...By using smart-metering and automation technologies, the world could save 15 per cent of CO2 emissions, a report from analyst McKinsey found last year....
...Oracle Utilities Network Management, the flagship program in the Oracle smart-grid offering, gives early warning of power outages and links into advanced metering infrastructure....
...Mr Villaflor needed several days to configure my system, which includes a Sony video switch, home theatre and other components....
...He singled out the chips TI was making for DLP (Digital Light Processing) high-definition television sets, wireless base station chips and low-power microcontrollers for remote metering....
...As for telcos’ metering your access, I recommend another worry....
...The Mail on Sunday ■A secret plan to introduce nationwide compulsory water metering is being worked on by David Milliband, the environment secretary....
...The existing market-driven system works well. Ricardo Perissich: I agree....
...Among the changes, the D70S gets a larger and brighter LCD panel that is easier to see in daylight, improved flash and a faster autofocus system....
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