Smart Grid stock pick: Ambient Corporation

Ambient Corporation Announces  Second Quarter Financial Results

Sets Record for First Half Revenue
Ambient designs, develops and markets Ambient Smart Grid® communications technologies and equipment. Utilizing Internet protocol-based open standards technologies along with in-depth industry experience, Ambient provides utilities with solutions for creating smart grid communication platforms and technologies. Headquartered in Newton, MA, Ambient is a publicly traded company (OTCBB: ABTG)

UPDATE: GE Energy Eyes Partners, Buys For Smart Grid Business

AUGUST 23, 2010, 12:36 P.M. ET

PARIS (Dow Jones)--General Electric Co.'s (GE) energy division is studying potential partnerships to give it a greater range in the smart grid business and is also on the lookout for acquisition targets in that fast-growing field, a company executive said Monday.

"From our point of view, if it's something we don't have completely, we can either develop it or we can partner with somebody," John D. McDonald, director of technical strategy and policy development at GE's Digital Energy division told ...

Largest smart grid in U.S. gets funding

By Annette Cary /  Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 

Local Jobs to Come for "Smart Grid" Technology

Senator Maria Cantwell came to Richland to announce plans for 500 new jobs in Washington, 40 which would be in the Tri-Cities.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company to Proceed with Smart Grid Implementation

Aug. 16, 2010, 9:01 a.m. EDT


"BGE says the lifetime benefits of the program will equal $2.5 billion dollars for its customers. The total cost of implementing the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)--aka smart grid--is expected to be $1 billion."

"A report from Pike Research forecasts that 276 million smart grid communications nodes will be shipped worldwide during the period from 2010 to 2016".