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• Smart cities: using data to shape our urban environments

  Scarce resources, an ever-growing population, natural disasters and many other factors mean we need to be smart about the way we manage the environments we live in.

• Electricity network pricing changes to drive utility ICT spending: IDC

  ICT spending within the utility sector in Australia is forecast to grow by five-year compound annual growth rate of of 2.3 per cent to more than $1.9 billion in 2015, according to IDC's Utilities Market Forecast and Analysis report.

• Ausgrid explores customer incentives in smartgrid push

  New South Wales energy utility Ausgrid is exploring customer rebates and reduced tariffs based on the differing energy saving technologies deployed at 50,000 homes slated for the Federal Government’s $100 million Smart Grid, Smart City project.
  

• UNSW extends smart grid course

  The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has added an extra session of its newly introduced smart grid short course in an effort to build as skills base of engineers in an area of increasing demand.
  

• Smart micro-grid to debut in regional NSW

  Houses in the Newcastle and Scone regions of NSW have been selected to trial battery-powered “micro-grid” which can increase energy efficiency and reduce the impact of outages.

• Updated: NSW to pilot $100 million smart grid project

  A $100 million trial of the Federal Government's smart grid project, <i>Smart Grid, Smart City</i>, is set to be rolled out across 50,000 home in five sites across New South Wales.

• Building IQ takes smart building software to US

  Australian software developer BuildingIQ will soon be offering its smart building services to US companies thanks to securing a runner up prize in the NSW Innovation Showcase: Fastpitch competition.

• Smart grid market progressing, but fractured: Logica

  Victoria’s failed smart meter rollout has prompted a radical shift in the way that smart grids are viewed by the energy sector, according to Logica.
  

• Natural disasters, smart grids flagged for new IBM R&D lab

  Natural disasters, resource management, life sciences and e-health will be keyed as high priorities for a new global research and development lab to be opened at the University of Melbourne by IBM.
  

• 'Grid-side' management requires greater focus: Academic

  Investment in the technology behind smart grid management is vital to ensuring the nation-wide move doesn't fail, according to one academic.

• EnergyAustralia gets smart

  The concept of smart energy monitoring has captured the imagination. In 2009, the federal government launched its National Energy Efficiency Initiative, providing up to $100 million for a smart grid demonstration project to encourage the development of a smart grid network in Australia.

• Wireless for power utilities uses WiMax guts

  A Silicon Valley startup has combined the technology underlying WiMax with a software-defined radio to build smart grids for electric utilities.

• Cisco will be hard pressed to match 2009

  2009 started with a bang and ended with a bash for Cisco.  

• Energy providers call for Smart Network consideration in NBN

  Energy providers have urged the federal government to recognise the benefits of existing fibre infrastructure in the national broadband network (NBN) roll out and to consider the 'Smart Network' opportunities.