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Webinar: Smart Grid Data Management
Smart Grid Data: How to Look Smarter in a Hurry (Hint: Get Brainiacs to Coach You) Jan 6, 2010 Here’s the problem — many of you could look very, very dumb this year. Thanks to smart meter rollouts and stimulus funding, data will be pouring into your utility. Unless you know how to handle it [...]
GREEN BEER – Brewery to use Price Timed Generation
January 4, 2010 By being tied into the smart grid in Fort Collins, Colo., New Belgium Brewing Co. will know when it makes sense to produce its own power, reports the Coloradoan. The city’s distributed energy generation program is designed to let companies and organizations that have their own generating capacity to add power back to the [...]
PODCAST – Inside Renewable Energy: The Real Story of Cap and Trade
January 3, 2010 In the wake of the Copenhagen talks and the passage of a climate bill in the U.S. House last year, the debate over cap and trade will likely intensify as we move 2010. Unfortunately, the debate in the halls of Congress, on the blogosphere and on the television talk shows is often [...]
New Carbon Footprint Calculation Accounts For Country of Consumption
Written by Susan Kraemer Published on January 1st, 2010 Norwegian scientists have created a new method of calculating carbon footprint that allocates the carbon produced in the country of consumption, not just in the country of production, bringing up some interesting issues and possible solutions to the difficulties of combating climate change. This revised carbon [...]
BEFI: PUTTING CENTRAL TEXAS AT FOREFRONT OF ENERGY INNOVATION
Austin American Statesman December 30, 2009 BEFI: PUTTING CENTRAL TEXAS AT FOREFRONT OF ENERGY INNOVATION The U.S. Department of Energy recently recognized Austin’s Pecan Street Project for its visionary leadership in the development of smart-grid systems with a $10.4 million stimulus-funds award. The project will deliver electricity more efficiently to consumers using two-way digital flows [...]
Restricted Content – Entergy Regulators form Regional State Committee
Entergy’s Retail Regulators have announced the formation of the Entergy Regional State Committee designed to provide collective retail regulatory agency input on the operations of and upgrades to the Entergy Transmission System as well as operations and functions of the Independent Coordinator of Transmission (ICT) in the Entergy region. The members of the E-RSC are [...]
PennWell's Photovoltaics World Conference Program Finalized
NASHUA, N.H., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire/ – The conference program for the Photovoltaics World Conference & Expo, to be held February 23-25, 2010 in Austin, Texas, has been finalized. Recent advances in photovoltaics technology and manufacturing processes will be addressed, as well as emerging applications for photovoltaic-based solar power generation systems. Information will be presented in two [...]
This Year in Wind Power
December 29, 2009 The economic stimulus story threaded its way through the calendar year in 2009. by Carl Levesque, AWEA Over 7,000 MW of wind power are expected to be installed this year in the U.S. That’s down from 2008′s record 8,545 MW, but that still would make it the second best year in the history [...]
DOE Announces Efforts to Strengthen U.S. Electric Transmission Networks
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Dec. 18 award selections for $60 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support transmission planning for the country’s three interconnection transmission networks. The six awards will promote collaborative long-term analysis and planning for the Eastern, Western and Texas electricity interconnections, which will help states, [...]
MIT Technology Review: The Year in Energy
Liquid batteries, giant lasers, and vast new reserves of natural gas highlight the fundamental energy advances of the past 12 months. By Kevin Bullis MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2009 With many renewable energy companies facing hard financial times (“Weeding Out Solar Companies“), a lot of the big energy news this year was coming out of Washington, DC, [...]