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The Motley Fool
October 29, 2009
Toby Shute |
Giant Grants for the Smart Grid These companies will be some of the biggest beneficiaries of the recent grants targeted for the solar sector.   |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
S. Massoud Amin |
U.S. Electrical Grid Gets Less Reliable Since 1995, outages have steadily increased as R&D steadily declined |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Madani & Novoosel |
Getting a Grip on the Grid The findings of major electric disturbances around the world highlight the need for cross-regional grid reforms, so that the best available technology is promptly put to use, without lengthy delays arising from American legislative or regulatory processes. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2004
Matthew Bechard |
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on the 2003 Blackout and Energy Efficiency Abraham spoke with Portfolio regarding the National Energy Policy, the 2003 blackout, and how REITs can improve their energy efficiency. |
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
February 22, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Turning a Light on Utilities Utilities stocks may be ready to rise as the economy picks up and demand improves. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Galante & Chediak |
Smart Meters May Not Be So Clever A consumer backlash is slowing rollouts of new electric meters |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Power: Keep The Candles Handy -- And Light A Few For the power sector, 2003 will be remembered as the year the lights went out. To avoid another blackout like the one that darkened big chunks of Canada and the U.S. in August, the industry will work harder this year. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Quanta Services Quickens Pace Strong service demand from utility customers powers profit growth. If it slipped down to a more appealing valuation, the stock may be worth a buy. |
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. |
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. |
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it. |
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
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. |
National Defense
August 2011
Zhen Zhang |
Cohesive Cybersecurity Policy Needed For Electric Grid Securing the electric grid is one of the key components of preventing terrorist attacks in the United States and increasing the country's resilience and recovery from such events. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Quanta Putting It Together With a growing backlog, big-name clients, and a federal mandate to improve power service, it doesn't look like the utility company is close to a peak in its business yet. Investors, take note. |
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. |
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? |
CRM
December 2013
Leonard Klie |
Despite Outages, Customer Satisfaction with Electric Utilities Brightens Improved communication in Web self-service and proactive outreach have bolstered customer sentiment, according to a J.D. Power study. |
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. |
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 |
InternetNews
September 3, 2010 |
Cisco Snags Arch Rock in Smart Grid Play Cisco looks to advance its position in the burgeoning smart-grid market with the acquisition of Arch Rock, a firm specializing in wireless sensors that connect devices to a mesh network. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Great Plains' Great Pains Will slow growth and declining earnings make this energy holding company an acquisition target? The low-growth, total-return scenario will only make sense if the stock fades closer to its 52-week low (down 10% from its current level). |
CRM
December 1, 2007
Colin Beasty |
Market Focus: Energy/Utilities -- Speaking Truth to Power (Companies) Analytics are increasingly leveraged for insight into customer behavior. |
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
November 4, 2010
Katherine Tweed |
For IBM, Asia Is Not Just About China The Asian smart grid market offers variety and depth, and "it's fun," says one IBM VP. |
IndustryWeek
August 18, 2010 |
Smart Grid Inches its Way Toward Reality Next-generation energy system promises industry improved power quality and reliability. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Has National Grid Become the Perfect Stock? Finding companies that have all the right stuff can produce winners. |
CIO
January 4, 2012
Mark Rowh |
Smart Grid Security Inadequate, Threats Abound As the Stuxnet attack shows, malicious hackers "clearly have the upper hand" over power grid systems, a new study says. A lack of strict standards and a hodgepodge of products have created today's chaotic state of utility cybersecurity. |
InternetNews
April 11, 2007
Michael Hickins |
IBM Jolts SOA to Save Energy IBM is helping electrical utilities re-energize their aging infrastructures. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2007
Toby Shute |
National Grid's Electrifying Performance Boring? Heck, no. The U.K. utility is selling off its wireless unit for a hair-raising gain. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Is Quanta Services Powering Up? Will increased spending for broadband and a new energy bill mean better business for this specialized telecom and utility contractor? At this point, Quanta still looks like a situation where the company is more interesting than the stock. |
IndustryWeek
June 20, 2012 |
Diamond Wipes International Leads the Way for Distributed Generation Churning out twice the energy it consumes, the company aims to ease the strain on the state's aging electric grid. |
InternetNews
June 29, 2010 |
Cisco Extends Smart Grid Push to Homes, Offices The networking giant's new energy management solutions look to tap the growing interest in green technology and energy efficiency. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Joshua J. Romero |
Blackouts Illuminate India's Power Problems Weak links in the grid prove difficult to fix |
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
November 4, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Quanta's Profitable Storm Surge Hurricane-related work helped this quarter, but utility infrastructure spending is the real key. This is a tricky stock to evaluate, so investors need to be careful. |
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. |
Food Engineering
April 1, 2005
Olin Thompson |
Something broken this way comes An estimated 35 percent of indirect cost in a food plant is due to maintenance. Can you foresee upcoming equipment failures? Predictive and preventive maintenance software can help keep your plant running. |
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
March 11, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
I Want to Like Quanta The big picture looks so promising for Quanta, who helps utilities, telcos, and cable companies build out their systems, but will reality follow suit? Investors, take note. |
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. |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2011
Andrew Sullivan |
America's Most Exciting Small Company PowerSecure is a leading smart grid company poised to take off. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2009 |
Cisco: IPv6 and Smart Grid Make Sense Together Key to the smart grid are IP transport and security as Cisco makes a new push. |
National Defense
April 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Report Ponders What Follows a Cyber Attack on Electric Grid Experts are convinced that a cyber attack on a U.S. electric grid that could cut off power to millions is a near certainty. |
