Washington Post

 

Postal Service Turns to GridPoint to Cut Energy Use

 

The U.S. Postal Service has tapped Arlington-based GridPoint to help the agency reduce its energy use by supplying a technology designed to centrally manage energy consumption from remote locations. The company said the deal, which is worth up to $28.8 million, marks GridPoint's largest contract with the government to date. Read More

Greenwire

 

U.S. Postal Service, GridPoint ink $28M deal  

 

GridPoint Executive Vice President John Clark said the installations would include hardware that allows users to more finely control the operations of heating, cooling and lighting systems, and software that provides visibility into how individual components and the whole system are using energy. Read More

Bloomberg  

 

U.S. Postal Service Signs $28.7 Million Deal to Cut Power Costs  

 

Under the agreement, GridPoint will install systems at post offices with 10,000 to 60,000 square feet (929 to 5,574 square meters) of space. The Postal Service probably will make back its investment through power savings in about two years [Rob McNiece, manager of the service’s energy program management]. Read More

CNET News  

 

GridPoint Signs Energy Management Deal with USPS

 

Last week, GridPoint announced that it has signed a deal to supply energy management software and hardware to the United States Postal Service, which has set a goal of lowering energy use by 30 percent by 2015.  Read More

CNBC

 

Building a Smart Grid

 

GridPoint CEO, Peter L. Corsell, explains how GridPoint's smart charging software is being used to integrate electric vehicles to the grid. Watch the Video

Reuters

 

GridPoint to Play Traffic Cop for Vehicle Charging

 

GridPoint has been busy lining up partnerships with many of the largest utilities during their ongoing EV trials, and this week added CabAire, eVco, Plug Smart Intelligent Energy Solutions and eTec as charging equipment partners. The eTec relationship encompasses more than 12,000 charging stations that are being set up in cities across the U.S., which are partially funded by the DOE. Read More

Earth2Tech

 

Top 15 Smart Grid Influencers

 

By some accounts, the build-out of the smart grid could be the biggest driver of wealth within the decade and create an even larger market than the emergence of the Internet. Earth2Tech selected GridPoint CEO Peter L. Corsell as one of the top 15 most influential people in the smart grid space.  Read More

SmartGridNews.com

 

Hometown Connections Chooses GridPoint for Software Platform

 

Hometown Connections, a utility services subsidiary of APPA, has entered into an exclusive arrangement with GridPoint to use their software platform for Smart Grid services and energy savings. SmartGridNews has been talking for years about the importance of a unifying Smart Grid platform. GridPoint has been on that path for a while now. This announcement is an important validation. Read More

TheStar.com

 

Old and new players chase smart-grid technology

 

GridPoint has developed a software platform that helps utilities go through the complex task of integrating renewable energy, energy storage and even electric cars into the grid. At the same time, it is empowering homeowners and businesses by giving them detailed information of their energy use while also allowing them to reduce consumption based on market signals. Read More

Earth Magazine

 

Making electric grids smarter

 

Under GridPoint’s platform, utility companies could even shut down certain appliances at peak load based on historical data of consumer aggregate usage habits. (Consumers would get to approve or override such moves.) And with more investment in smart grid technology now than ever, experts say that not even the economic crisis can slow smart grids down. Read More

Associated Press

 

5 green investing trends to watch

 

In a report released March 2009, Clean Edge Inc., a research and publishing firm, summarized five major trends. The recently published report, "Clean Energy Trends 2009" selected GridPoint as a “company to watch” in the Smart Grid software trend. Read More

Nightly Business Report

 

President Obama Gets Into The Green of Things

 

If a smart grid is the road to our energy future, the engineers at GridPoint are laying the pavement. They're developing devices and software to make electricity cheaper and more efficient. Read More / Watch Video