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Federal Grants to Spur Clean-Tech, Smart Grid Innovations

October 27, 2009 by Gina Roos

The Obama Administration has released billions of dollars under the federal stimulus act to drive technological innovation in the areas of clean technologies and smart-grid networks. The head of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the first federal grants for high-risk, high-reward clean-tech ventures including innovative technologies such ... Read more »

When Explaining Smart Grid Benefits, Keep it Simple

October 26, 2009 by Paul Nastu

When explaining the benefits of the smart grid, consumers relate most to terms such as “budget billing,” “flat billing” and “peak pricing.” They do not relate well to terms like “green pricing” or “fuel supply billing,” according to “Green Gap Redux: Green Words Gone Wrong,” a report from EcoAlign. The ... Read more »

GE, Whirlpool, Others Launch Smart Green Grid Initiative

October 21, 2009 by Gina Roos

GE, Whirlpool Corp. and other technology and utility businesses have established a new collaborative effort aimed at demonstrating the role of smart-grid technologies and practices in meeting climate change goals. The new Smart Green Grid Initiative (SGGI) has been approved by the United Nations to be an official smart-grid delegation ... Read more »

Smart Grid Projects Get Ready to Roll in the U.S., UAE

October 5, 2009 by Gina Roos

Cisco, together with utility, technology and local government partners, are developing some of the nation’s first projects to create a smarter electric grid. General Electric is also testing how smart appliances can help lower power demand in a pilot program at Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. Hoping for a piece ... Read more »

Utilities Bumping Rates to Cover Rising Costs, Smart Meters

September 30, 2009October 21, 2009 by Gina Roos

While the cities of Fort Collins, Colo., and Milwaukee, Wis., are still debating proposed price hikes by local utilities, in some cases to pay for the installation of new technologies such as advanced metering, Xcel Energy in Minneapolis has received approval to raise prices in order to pay for rising ... Read more »

Whirlpool to Produce 1M Smart Energy Dryers by 2011

September 29, 2009October 21, 2009 by Gina Roos

Whirlpool Corp. will produce one million smart-energy clothes dryers by the end of 2011 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant program. These dryers could save consumers $20 to $40 per year in markets where utilities offer variable or time-of-use pricing, said the appliance ... Read more »

Federal Smart Grid Framework Released

September 25, 2009October 21, 2009 by Paul Nastu

More companies should be able to devise a plan for adopting Smart Grid technologies now that a new federal framework for the Smart Grid has been published by the Department of Commerce. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently unveiled a draft of the report (PDF), entitled “NIST Framework and Roadmap for ... Read more »

IBM Makes Cities and Utilities Smarter with New Technologies

September 21, 2009October 19, 2009 by Gina Roos

Moving forward with its strategy for a Smarter Planet, IBM is helping cities and utilities become smarter by providing new technologies and tools to help them better manage their resources, while reducing cost, increasing reliability and lowering energy and water consumption. A new report from the IBM Institute for Business ... Read more »

USGBC Wants an Environmental Label for Every Building

September 15, 2009December 14, 2010 by Gina Roos

Every building in the U.S. should have a label as to its environmental impact, said the U.S. Green Building Council’s president at the Healthy Buildings meeting. At the same event, IBM told how it is taking green buildings one step further with bright-green buildings, which converges green buildings with intelligence, ... Read more »

Software Drives Smart Grid Deployments

September 10, 2009 by Gina Roos

In order to deliver real-time communications over smart-grid networks, utility companies like Duke Energy and Xcel Energy are partnering with technology companies that can deliver the hardware and software necessary to enable communications between utilities and customers as well as network devices. As an example, Ambient Corp. has recently signed ... Read more »

IBM, OASIS Advance Smart Grid Initiatives

August 31, 2009 by Gina Roos

Smart-grid initiatives are taking the form of many different partnerships including product improvements, standards development and demonstration projects that are designed to improve reliability and efficiency, and ease the integration of network capabilities into smart-grid networks. As an example, smart-grid solution provider Trilliant Inc. is integrating its UnitySuite of smart-grid ... Read more »

UM Uses Smart Meters, Twitter To Provide Energy-Use Updates

August 28, 2009October 19, 2009 by Paul Nastu

The University of Mississippi plans to reduce campus power consumption with the recent installation of smart meters at 16 of the school’s buildings to monitor, analyze, and report on energy utilization. The school will publish daily energy updates for the general public using Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds. The program is part of UM’s “Red, ... Read more »

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