Dive Summary:

• After more than a year in development, a smart grid project created in a collaboration between Japanese and U.S. companies is now live in New Mexico and promises to help solve nagging problems related to adding more renewable energy into the power grid.
• Over the next six months, Japanese solar panel maker Kyocera says the network will test solar power, energy storage and electric grid management while producing data and analyses.
• The participants--which also include the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization of Japan, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities—held a ceremony this week to celebrate the launch of the $52 million project, and the Japanese consortium is also working on a smart building project in an Albuquerque mixed-use community.

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A smart grid project that has been under development for over a year, created by a collaboration of Japanese and U.S. companies, is now live in New Mexico. The demonstration project promises to help solve some thorny problems with adding more renewable energy into the power grid. …