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The Gridwise Alliance , a nonprofit coalition of stakeholders developing the Smart Grid, signed a memorandum of understanding today with the International Engineering Consortium , to team up to make utilities more intelligent. Presumably, the Alliance...
Tags: Gridwise Alliance, GridWise Alliance, IEC, ComForum Smart Grid, Santa Clara, Smart meter, Electrical grid, Public utility, Business Finance, Electric power transmission systems, Electricity distribution, Smart grid
Chicago's likeliest big beneficiary of President Obama's stimulus package? Would you imagine that it might be an obscure, mundane and relatively new public company that is emerging as a leading force in electrifying America? That's because the feds are...
Tags: MYR Group, MYRG, Bill Koertner, renewable energy, Rolling Meadows, Presidency of Barack Obama, United States federal banking legislation, Smart grid, Wind power, 111th United States Congress, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Climate crisis, Business Finance
The grant means the 2-year-old company will grow from five to six people to about 300 people in the next three years. "We've been proving the technology and getting ready for market," said Steve Berens of Power Tagging. Recruitment has begun for engineers...
Tags: Steve Berens, powered tagging, Boulder, Smart grid, Electrical grid, Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database, V2G, Smart, Business Finance, Electric power transmission systems, Electricity distribution, Electric power, Technology Internet
Revving up European power transmission networks to transport 90 percent of renewable energy by the year 2050 could be achieved at affordable sums, pressure group Greenpeace said in a study published on Friday. European policymakers dream of getting away...
Tags: Greenpeace, Germany, Frankfurt, Smart grid, Renewable energy, Super grid, Solar power, Electric power transmission systems, Electricity distribution, Biomass, Environment
Steve Westly, former California state controller and now founder of the venture firm Westly Group , says he got interested in the Smart Grid and cleantech in order to save the world and make massive amounts of money in the process. During a talk designed...
Tags: Smart Grid, Steve Westly, Westly Group, San Francisco, Electrical grid, IPhone, Vinod Khosla, Smart meter, Electric power transmission systems, Electricity distribution
Cisco Systems has put no limit on its budget for Smart Grid development, the company’s grid guru Laura Ipsen told the audience at GreenBeat 2009 — albeit quoting her boss John Chambers. The question now is what Cisco will use that money for — for now...
Tags: Smart Grid, Cisco Systems, Laura Ipsen, San Francisco, Electrical grid, Electric power transmission systems, Ipsen
I’m not skeptical that the Smart Grid should exist,” famed Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla said, kicking off his conversation with VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 09 event today. “I wouldn’t be here if I was.” Khosla has...
Tags: Smart Grid, Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla, Al Gore, San Mateo, Energy development, Electric power transmission systems, Environment, Electricity distribution, Energy policy, Electrical grid, Energy economics
At GreenBeat 2009’s Politics and Policy session, the prevalent theme was the need for a simple, efficient legislation and regulation package for the U.S. power system. Robert Gee of Gee Strategies went so far as to say, “Before anything is passed into...
Tags: smart grids, Katherine Hamilton, San Francisco, Power outage, EnerNOC, Electrical grid, Electric power transmission systems, Smart grid, Electricity distribution
During GreenBeat 2009’s International breakout panel, examining Smart Grid development on the global level, the prevalent theme was consumer engagement: in a regulated environment, like the U.K., how do you engage the consumer?...According to Ray Bell...
Tags: smart grid, U.K, San Francisco, Wireless networking, Electric power, Google PowerMeter, ZigBee, Technology Internet, Electricity distribution, Electric power transmission systems, IEEE 802
Venture capitalists and investment bankers are fascinated by the potential of making money from Smart Grid investments and initial public offerings in the coming year, judging from the latest panel at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 09 event today. In spite of...
Tags: Peter Wagner, silver spring, Smart Grids, GreenBeat, VentureBeat, managing director, Electrical grid, Smart meter, Venture capital, Smart, Cleantech, Electric power transmission systems, Electricity distribution, Smart grid, Business Finance