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IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Jean Kumagai |
The Smartest, Greenest Grid What the little Danish island of Bornholm is showing the world about the future of energy   |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Harry Goldstein |
How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
William Sweet |
The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost? |
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 |
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. |
Bank Technology News
October 2008
Dan Sharplin |
Keep the Grid Going and Reap Rewards Instead of simply putting up with higher electric bills and periodic service disruptions, bank chains have a unique opportunity to become part of the energy solution-and to profit from it at the same time. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Jean Kumagai |
A Battery as Big as the Grid 2012 could mark the arrival of utility-scale battery storage |
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? |
Home Toys
February 2006
Michael Kintner-Meyer |
Grid Friendly Appliances What can home appliances do to help ensure the reliability of the electricity grid? A lot -- if they employ smart control technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Vaclav Smil |
A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
William Sweet |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme ConsumerPowerline, a four-year-old New York company, is showing its clients how to make money, and quite a lot of it, by not using electricity. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Mosko & Bellotti |
Smart Conservation for the Lazy Consumer People aren't conserving energy for love or money -- you have to trick them into it |
National Defense
April 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Navy Taps Oceans for Power As the Navy dives headlong into the challenge of meeting its alternative energy goals within the next decade, technologists are striving to help the service harness solar power trapped in ocean waters to generate electricity for its shore-side bases |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
InternetNews
January 2, 2007
Paul Shread |
Grid, Virtualization Get Closer Grid computing could become inseparable from virtualization and service-oriented architectures, according to 451 Group analysts. |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation? |
Popular Mechanics
November 24, 2009
Chris Ladd |
How Centuries-Old Flywheels Can Improve the Electric Grid For millennia, flywheels have powered everything from potter's wheels to steam engines, storing kinetic energy in their momentum as they spin. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Samuel K. Moore |
The Water Cost of Carbon Capture Coal power's carbon savior could double its water woes |
BusinessWeek
April 29, 2010
Jeremy van Loon |
Where Wind Power Is Blowing Away Profits As wind power generation grows, it can create regional surpluses of electricity. That makes power prices fall, hurting wind profits. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
September 16, 2009
Peter Alpern |
Smarter Information, Not More With the rapid advance of gaming technology, simulation can train workers to make better decisions. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Energy: New Plants, Old Problems Hundreds of new power plants are in the works in the United States, but they won't make energy cheaper or more reliable for manufacturers or consumers. |
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. |
Food Processing
April 2012
Dave Fusaro |
PepsiCo Casa Grande Plant Reaches 'Near Net Zero' for Sustainability Frito-Lay's Casa Grande, Ariz., plant is nearly self-sustaining in water, heat and electricity. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Peter Fairley |
Quicker Coal Power Greater agility in output may keep Old King Coal in place in a nonnuclear Germany |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Peter Fairley |
Syn City Could Zaozhuang's hybrid chemical and power plants help clean up China's energy sector? |
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. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Ben Paynter |
Trade Electricity Like Pork Bellies To efficiently price electricity regions should gauge demand and set a price in advance. That's what New England's independent system operator started doing last year. |
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
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Sharon Weinberger |
Gaza Power Strip The Palestinian power plant has endured bombings, embargoes and blockades: Can it ever fully power Gaza's grid? |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Peter Fairley |
Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC New developments in high-voltage DC electronics could herald an epic shift in energy delivery |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2010
Herman K. Trabish |
Xcel Shows It Can Catch the Wind in a Big Battery Utility's test results prove wind power and solar power can work better with a battery. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
Prachi Patel |
Nuclear Energy: Full-Steam Ahead? Until the Japanese earthquake and its devastating consequences, nuclear power was ready for a renaissance. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
American Electric Power Gets Smart The company will work with General Electric to develop and install "smart meters" to help better manage the transmission of electricity, and give customers more direct control over how much they use, thus saving them money. |
InternetNews
February 14, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Startup Has Designs on Super Virtualization Virtual Iron has created software to subsume the work of several, connected physical servers in a data center. |
Popular Mechanics
December 11, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Can Offshore Grids Solve Our Wind Power Woes? The European Commission met last month to discuss connecting their growing supply of offshore wind power with a grid spanning the Baltic Sea, North Sea and Mediterranean Sea. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
May 17, 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Turbine Turbulence: How to Fix U.S. Wind Power On the outskirts of Abilene, Texas, if you get close enough, the whoosh of giant, energy-pumping blades might convince you that wind power is destined to grow. |
CIO
May 1, 2001
Susannah Patton |
Think Outside the Grid California's power crisis is a wake-up call. Now, to keep their websites from crashing and their IT systems from freezing, CIOs need to focus on risk planning... |
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
May 12, 2011
Dexter Roberts |
China's Power Outages Come Early and Often Power shortages in China have caused brownouts and pit power generators, who want to raise prices, against regulators. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Harry Goldstein |
Malta's Smart Grid Solution The world's first multiutility grid should save water and money |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Toyota's Eco-Friendly Plan for New Plant Lean manufacturing pioneer Toyota Motor Corp. will use its model of efficiency to create an environmentally friendly plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Smart Power A smart grid could allow manufacturers more control over their power consumption. |
