Tag: Utilities - Page 4
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Intel Making Moves Into Smart Grid Technology
Intel - alongside practically every other major IT company - is launching in on smart grid projects, starting off with partnering up with other companies to run pilot tests of several different types of home
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Tendril Launching New Home Energy Monitor - Progress, or Just Another Gadget?
Image via Tendril Tendril, one of the main leaders in the home energy management industry, is finally releasing what most other home energy management companies have already released - a gadget for watching your energy consumption and shifting to better
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Utilities Poised to Blow It When Smart Grid Rolls Out
According to new research from IDC Energy Insights, utilities are not even remotely ready for the smart grid particularly when it comes to one vital piece of the puzzle - customer interaction. So far, utilities have been
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Time for Developers to Go Nuts on Energy Efficiency - Google Releases API for PowerMeter
Google's PowerMeter tool is taking a bite out of the slow progress we're making toward a smart grid by jumping over utilities that move at the speed-of-molasses and putting energy data in front of users right
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Smarter Grids, Appliances, and Consumers
More and more utilities are beginning to realize that building large power plants just to handle peak daily and seasonal demand is a very costly way of managing an electricity system. Existing
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Sheila Kennedy and the Portable Light Project
Not your typical architecture firm, Sheila Kennedy and her cohorts at KVA MATx are stripping apart the built environment and reassembling it with an eye for flexibility. Her vision: a world of distributed power in which solar potential is woven into the
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Gloria Reuben on the Dirty Lie of Clean Coal
When people describe their first time seeing mountaintop removal coal mining, the response is invariably the same: dropped jaws and sunken hearts. Along with her prolific work in film and television (ER, Raising the Bar), Gloria Reuben is a tireless
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Data Center Housed Under Cathedral Heats Homes in Finland
Using waste heat from data centers to provide heating for facilities and nearby homes has been gaining traction. For instance, IBM has been looking into how to heat nearby homes with waste heat from it's data centers. Now one data
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Outspoken Carbon Monitoring: Zerofootprint's RFID TalkingPlugs
The CEO of Zerofootprint, Ron Dembo, is a man who has often written and been written about on TreeHugger. Now it looks like this outspoken man is ready to let the world's power plugs start speaking for themselves. Zerofootprint, his energy and carbon
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GE Ships US's First Smart Appliance, But Is It Pointless?
GE is shipping the first smart appliance to hit the US market. It's a water heater that can reduce energy consumption up to 62%, providing a savings of about 3,025 kWh per year. And the "smart" part comes with the fact that it can hook up
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Power Tripping Across America with Environmental Journalist Amanda Little
Amanda Little built a journalistic career decrying the pains and convulsions of our petrol-obsessed society, but it wasn't until she embarked on a very personal quest did the story of oil become illuminated in human terms. Amanda tells TreeHugger Radio
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Helix-Shaped Wind Turbines Could Power Nigerian Cell Towers
Vertical axis wind turbines are an intriguing technology that most people still know little about. The turbines we are accustomed to use blades to turn a horizontal axis (which is often housed in the little cupola on the top of the turbine's tall stem).
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Seattle City Light Is First Utility to Offer Microsoft Hohm to Customers
Microsoft's Sustainability blog announced Hohm's first utility partner - Seattle City Light. Customers of the utility will start to be able to use Hohm to track their energy usage and get rolling on conserving electricity. Microsoft Hohm is an
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Greenpeace Says Bolivian Offset Project is One Big Carbon Scam & US Electric Companies Behind It
Here's a good example of how not to do carbon offsets, as well as the potential danger in relying on sub-national REDD offset programs rather than reducing emissions at the source: Greenpeace USA has just released a new report
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West Coast Green 2009: Can Energy Dashboards Change Behavior, Permanently?
Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch Energy dashboards were a big subject at West Coast Green this year. But the buzz wasn't as much around new devices on the market as it was pondering how energy dashboards - and the simple fact of making energy consumption data
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Will Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Conflict With Mineral & Property Rights?
"Red lines represent existing CO2 pipeline infrastructure; the green lines represent the hypothetical pipeline scenarios..." Image credit:R. Lee Gresham, Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan, Sean T. McCoy, from pre-publication draft paper: Implications of
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Nation's Largest Utility Quits US Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Change Denial - Pushes Price on Carbon
The flight of utilities from the US Chamber of Commerce due to its climate change denial stance continues: The latest to quit (well, not renew its membership) is Chicago-based
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The Power Monitor: Top Tools for Watching Your Home Energy Use
You can reduce electricity use by 15 percent without trying. Sound too good to be true? It isn't. For those consumers using power monitors, this these are typical reductions. Just by being aware of where and when
