Posts Tagged ‘2021’

On Tuesday, it was announced that San Diego Gas & Electric was buying some nine hundred megahertz spectrum. The utility is creating a private LTE network for a falling conductor protection system.

Anterix on Tuesday announced it would sell around 6MHz of spectrum in the 900MHz band covering 3.6 million people to San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a subsidiary of utility giant Sempra Energy, for a whopping $50 million.

The Biden administration’s energy policies are the most dynamic and transformative in recent US history. Climate change is the fulcrum for a comprehensive new ‘whole of government’ approach that will include every tool at the federal government’s disposal and virtually every significant energy measure will be viewed through a climate impact lens.

Organizations, from utilities to government agencies, are considering building their own private wireless networks for a variety of reasons. You may want to keep your employees communicating in hard-to-reach places, or you may want to connect your machine to the Internet, which may remain isolated.

The electric utility industry looks a bit like a man on a ladder with one foot seeking the rung below, unsure of where it is. But find it he must.