Tag: Utilities - Page 7
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Clean Tech Forum 2009: Smart Grid Panel is the Most Important of Event
Well, according to moderator Tom Cain, that is. But we have to agree it was pretty darn important. Experts in the smart grid industry gathered to talk about the roadblocks and strategies for the smart grid, and how vital it is to get it up and running
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Investing Green in the Midst of Economic Turmoil
With close to $100 billion in green investments, the new administration's bailout could promote a shift to wind and solar power, mass transit, and a modernized green infrastructure. While companies remain stagnant waiting for this
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120 MW of Solar Power to be Installed by New Jersey's Largest Utility
New Jersey's largest utility PSE&G; has announced that, pending regulatory approval, it will be installing 120 MW of solar power in communities throughout its service area. The program is called Solar 4 All and will consist of four different parts
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Malta Latching on to Smart Grid Movement
Even Malta is catching the smart grid bug, partnering up with IBM for a $103 million project to install a smart grid and replace 250,000 old meters with smart meters by 2012.
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eMeter Makes Smart Grid Data Matter
Behind every super hero is a great sidekick. The same is true for the smart grid. The smart grid works to transmit data between homes and utilities, but what of that data? How is it gathered, processed, and used? That's where
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Smart Grids Are the Big Thing of 2009
IBM's Venture Capital Group is keeping an eye on the next big target for the greening of America - and for clean tech investing - and its convinced 2009 will be the year of the smart grid. SmartMeters.com reports:
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6 Clean Tech Start-Ups to Watch in 2009
2008 was a banner year for green tech start ups. While the economy crashed, investments in clean technology stayed relatively strong. We're taking a look at the top techy start-ups to follow as the new year begins. OptiSolar: Planning one of the
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Ecologist Josh Donlan on Bringing Sexy Animals Back via "Rewilding"
Josh Donlan wants conservation biology to have teeth. He's at the forefront of a hot new discipline called REWILDING. If he has his way, the bump in the night might be a lion or cheetah stalking you for dinner, and deer
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Smart Meters So Hot, They Cause Fights
The Smart Meter industry is really taking off. That means tech firms that want to solidify contracts in the UK are starting to have to duke it out.
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The TH Interview: Chris Goodall--Ten Techs to Save Our Butts (Part Two)
In part two of our interview with the author of Ten Technologies to Save the Planet, we continue our tour of the coolest, most promising, and most necessary green technologies alive today. Get ready for electric cars, carbon capture, and (I know it's
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IBM Gathering More Utilities for Smart Grid Deployment
IBM has been very serious about stepping up actions towards a working smart grid, which includes working with utility companies on getting smart grid technology deployed for testing.
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The TH Interview: Chris Goodall--Ten Techs to Save Our Butts (Part One)
Mr. Goodall phrases it more elegantly than we have, to be sure, but the premise is the same: if we want to avoid big trouble in paradise, we need to get very busy with radically new technologies. Goodall is an author (his previous book was How to Live a
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Renewable Energy Is A Local Issue: California, Colorado, Missouri State Ballot Initiatives in Brief
With a little less than two weeks until the presidential elections (thank god it’s almost over...) it’s worthwhile remembering that it’s not just presidential choices which can influence the future of energy
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Frugal Tips for New Homeowners also Happen to be Green
It just so happens that the very same tips
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Plug-In Hybrids Address The OTHER Energy Security Issue: The Grid
In early 1981, Salvadoran Civil War guerillas bombed a power plant and blacked out San Salvador. A few months later, guerillas targeted a dam that provided half of El Salvador's electricity. By November, a third of this small, Central American nation
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Is Quitting Coal Harder Than Quitting Cigarettes?
When President Bush said that we're addicted to oil should he have included coal as a vice on par with the "black gold?" Yep. After all, we do get roughly half our electricity from coal. But does the coal industry have their own Joe Camel to help us
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Survey: Would You Go Solar If You Could Do It No Money Down?
In Connecticut, "low and moderate income" ($ 121,650 is moderate? Wow.) wage earners can get subsidies so that they can install complete solar photovoltaic systems with no money down. You still have to make payments on the system, but then again you
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Big Surprise: The Cheaper the Power, the More We Use
Over at Worldchanging, Eric de Place of the Sightline Institute plots some interesting data, showing demonstrating that just like with cars and gas prices, the higher the price of electricity, the less people will use. But only to a point; residents of
