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The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Toby Shute |
The Smart Grid Means More Than Meters Reliability is also key to improving our electric infrastructure. |
The Motley Fool July 27, 2010 Rich Duprey |
Maybe the Smart Grid Is Dumb Regulators are forcing utilities that invested in the technology to wear a dunce cap. |
InternetNews March 24, 2010 |
IBM Smart Grid Push Aims for Power Efficiency In a team-up with eMeter, IBM plans to help public utilities improve their power usage and efficiency. |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Toby Shute |
The Sunshine State's Getting Smart From its early alliance with American Electric Power, to last fall's gang-up with Google, General Electric has been pursuing smart grid opportunities for years now. At last, it seems this bright idea's time in the spotlight has arrived. |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Rich Duprey |
Are We Smart Enough for the Smart Grid? Where solar, ethanol, or similar alt-energy platforms require substantial investments, the Smart Grid allows start-ups to develop tools and devices to collect and organize the data on consumption to become the 10-baggers of the next decade. Here's how to profit from this next big thing. |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Toby Shute |
Google Swoops on the Smart Grid Fresh off of its investment in next-generation geothermal power, Google makes another notable cleantech move, announcing it's pairing up with General Electric to bring our electric grid into the 21st century. |
Reason June 2009 Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
BusinessWeek September 16, 2010 Galante & Chediak |
Smart Meters May Not Be So Clever A consumer backlash is slowing rollouts of new electric meters |
Wired March 23, 2009 Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
InternetNews February 18, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Googling for the Smart Grid Fresh off the government's pledge of billions for a smart grid, Google and partner GE host a seminar imagining what a new energy regime might look like. |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2009 Rich Duprey |
Utility to Drive Smart Grid Advances Drive a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and you'll get some idea of how we're driving our energy sector today. |
Popular Mechanics March 25, 2009 Erik Sofge |
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid. |
IndustryWeek April 20, 2011 |
Powering Up: The Smart Grid's Next Steps While meters have received the bulk of the attention so far, the supply side is where the smart grid will be built. |
Wired Kevin Kelleher |
Make Conservation Simple (and Easy) A smart grid requires smart electric meters that let households track and manage their power consumption in real time. The key is making the meters easy to use. |
Popular Mechanics October 27, 2009 Tyghe Trimble |
Obama Announces Winners of Smart-Grid Stimulus One hundred private companies, utilities, manufacturers, cities and other partners received awards today, including Florida Power and Light |
The Motley Fool August 4, 2010 Michael Kanellos |
Why Pick WiMax, Mesh Over Power Line? Cost. CenterPoint Energy thought about becoming an Internet service provider. Utilities and power providers, meanwhile, may have to help consumers with home are networks. |
The Motley Fool July 25, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Heat Wave Highlights Our Aging Grid When the temperature rises, we can see exactly where there's money to be made investing in the power grid. |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2011 Robert Eberhard |
Don't Fear the Megalopolis An examination of utilities that serve the urban region along the east coast. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
Fast Company July 2009 Anya Kamenetz |
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2010 Rich Duprey |
Alt Energy Needs Alt Financing The expiration of federal grants may doom more alt-energy projects. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 8, 2012 Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
PHONE+ January 26, 2010 Ken Rowen |
Energy Regulation: Watts Up With That? As of today, 13 states and the District of Columbia have great variance in methodologies and regulations among them. |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2009 Toby Shute |
Green Government Grants Grease the Wheels In recent weeks, the government has thrown stimulus funds at a slew of alternative fuel and power projects. |
InternetNews November 21, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
And Now, a Peek at Google's D.C. Agenda Google hosts a panel discussion about a national broadband policy. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2011 David Lee Smith |
A More Powerful Duke Could Become a King Duke and Progress: Two North Carolinians want to become all powerful. |
IndustryWeek August 18, 2010 |
Smart Grid Inches its Way Toward Reality Next-generation energy system promises industry improved power quality and reliability. |
Home Toys October 2002 Steve Nguyen |
The Future of Home Automation In the end, the infrastructure that a service provider creates to reach the shell of a home will be the catalyst for manufacturers, service companies and others to create the automated products that may one day make the home automation market what we always thought it could be. |
Wired March 23, 2009 Vince Beiser |
Store Power in Super Batteries Storing wind and solar power is key to the successful transition to these energy sources. |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Germany May Lead the Next Clean-Energy Revolution Without nuclear power, Germany will need to step up its solar and wind games. |
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 |
Obama's and GE's Strategies Are in Sync Where the priorities of the President and GE align. |
Entrepreneur April 2010 Julie Bennett |
Are We Headed Toward a Green Bubble? Billions of dollars are pouring into clean-tech companies - with little results. Is this an intelligent investment or the beginning of another bubble? |
InternetNews April 11, 2007 Michael Hickins |
IBM Jolts SOA to Save Energy IBM is helping electrical utilities re-energize their aging infrastructures. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Peter Fairley |
Residential Solar Power Heads Toward Grid Parity Some rooftop photovoltaics are already cost-effective |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Eric Dutram |
Three Utility ETFs Worth a Look Here are three lesser known ETFs that offer unique exposure to the utility sector and may have slipped below many investors' radar screens. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 |
You Tell Us: Who's Got the Power? The coordinated introduction of a group of technologies will make Boulder the first city in the United States to be powered by a so-called smart grid by December 2009. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Solar Investors Should Be Bullish on Oil Higher fossil fuel prices make the cost of renewable energy look better all the time. |
Information Today January 14, 2016 |
EBSCO Gives Libraries Incentives to Step Toward Solar EBSCO Information Services created a grant initiative (totaling $150,000) to help libraries adopt solar power. |
IndustryWeek June 20, 2012 |
Can the U.S. Revitalize its Infrastructure? Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system. |
Home Theater April 1, 2010 Mark Fleischmann |
Smart Meters Maybe Not So Smart Security holes may let hackers steal your juice. |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2012 Travis Hoium |
Backup Power's Cost to Renewable Energy How much does renewable energy's intermittent nature really cost utilities? |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
Smart Power A smart grid could allow manufacturers more control over their power consumption. |
Home Toys December 2005 Brian Golden |
The Energy Crisis Gets Personal Just as the Internet empowered millions with easy access to information and brand new ways to communicate, emerging technologies will also bring sweeping changes in energy production and consumption. |
BusinessWeek December 17, 2009 Bruce Einhorn |
A Power Play for China's Electrical Grid With Beijing budgeting $600 billion to upgrade its network, global giants are racing to plug in. |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2007 Toby Shute |
Go, Go, Google Hybrid! Through its nonprofit arm, Google.org, the company is taking up the cause of electric vehicles. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2009 Toby Shute |
Biomass Players' Turn to Feed at the Trough Is this round of alternative energy funding money well spent? |
CIO October 27, 2014 Lauren Brousell |
Gamification Helps Utility Companies Change Customer Behavior ComEd, National Grid and other utilities use analytics to get consumers to compete with neighbors and encourage whole towns to conserve -- and earn rewards. |
IndustryWeek November 18, 2009 |
Consider This -- Single Energy Projects Don't Maximize Savings Reducing energy usage and costs gets easier when your energy initiatives work in tandem as part of a comprehensive energy strategy. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2011 Travis Hoium |
California Makes a Splash in Solar California is taking concrete steps to become solar's next big demand source. |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2011 Marc Gunther |
GE's Big Bet on Natural Gas The company cites a push toward natural gas and says its new plant leads the way in efficiency. |