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Toshiba Corp paid 10.7 times trailing Ebitda when it bought Swiss smart-meter maker Landis & Gyr for $2.3 billion last year, he noted.
ABB to Buy Electrical Parts Maker John Revill 2012
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Another reason bills may increase: Most utilities will impose a small surcharge to pay for the smart-meter rollout.
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I am out visiting with venture capitalists, smart-meter companies and companies like Google who are looking at our space in unique ways.
Constellation's Shattuck Sweats the Details Mark Peters 2010
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Deutsche Telekom ' s plan is to sell a fixed-price service that includes installation and operation of a communications box that transmits the smart-meter data to a secure data center every 15 minutes, computes it and then forwards it to the utilities.
Deutsche Telekom Eyes Meters Christopher Lawton 2010
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I am out visiting with venture capitalists, smart-meter companies and companies like Google who are looking at our space in unique ways.
Constellation's Shattuck Sweats the Details Mark Peters 2010
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Electric Co. has a voluntary program for its smart-meter customers: an increase of 60 cents per kilowatt-hour during peak times, and a discount of 3 cents per kilowatt-hour in off-peak.
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Many utility companies contend that a full smart-meter program will save costs: by reducing the need for them to buy high-priced peak power from electricity producers; by making new power plants unnecessary; and by lowering operating expenses, such as for manual meter reading and for house calls to connect or disconnect service.
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The companies announced a strategic alliance where the smart-meter company and the network communications giant will work on a new communications platform for smart-grid technology.
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Security companies have demonstrated that they can hack into smart-meter systems, but so far no breaches have been confirmed.
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He added that many smart-meter installations in California coincided with a rate increase for electricity and an extended heat wave, factors that drove utility bills up for some consumers.
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