The usual Intel-ARM potshots continued at CES with ARM’s CEO responding to Intel’s new Medfield chip running on smartphones. The CEO conceded that Intel would get some design wins but added, “Are they ever going to be the leaders in power efficiency? No, of course not.”… Read More »
Bio:Katie Fehrenbacher, Editor, Earth2Tech
Katie Fehrenbacher has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for over 7 years. She is the founding Editor of Earth2Tech, which she launched in July 2007. Prior to starting Earth2Tech she was a Staff Writer for GigaOM where she covered wireless and broadband technology. She has been a Reporter at Red Herring, an Editor at Engadget and began her career as a Reporter in the Silicon Valley bureau of the largest Japanese daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.
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Recent Posts
Last week eMeter’s Chris King shared his smart grid predictions for 2012. But also, as the new year turns, he says he’s pondering these important questions, too: Read More »
The Internet of Things can help track gadgets to their end of life, whether that’s to a landfill or to a new user. Here is a real-world business example of the latter: EcoATM is connecting its cell phone recycling kiosks using machine-to-machine networking company Axeda’s software. Read More »
Phone company Verizon quietly launched its smart home products nationwide about three months ago, which enable customers to lock and unlock doors and windows, watch home video cameras remotely, and manage thermostats and lighting. Read More »
Electric car maker Tesla Motor’s stock saw one of its sharpest drops in months on Friday on the news that two of its execs have left; shares closed at $22.79, which was a 19.33 percent drop, though the shares rebounded a bit in after hours trading.… Read More »
Although we live in an AC-dominated world, DC seems poised for a comeback, particularly in data centers. Facebook adopted a DC architecture in its Prineville, Ore., data center. SAP spent $128,000 retrofitting a datacenter at its offices in Palo Alto, Calif., to rely on DC power. Read More »
When it comes to geothermal energy, it’s abundant and the possibilities are endless, but how efficient is it to drill, baby, drill? Professor Tom Murphy looks at the potentials for tapping the power deep within the Earth. Read More »
More Must Reads
The new year is a good time to look ahead and back. I’ve been doing a lot of deep thinking about how the smart grid is developing. Here’s what I expect we’ll see happen in 2012… Read More »
One of the difficulties with investing in cleantech startups is that investors sometimes need to take very long term views of the companies they back, despite that companies can be risky. Next-gen biofuel company KiOR is a prime example of this long term, high risk phenomenon. Read More »
2011 was a difficult year for solar manufacturers, and don’t expect 2012 to get much better. Lux Research’s Matt Feinstein pens a predictive article for PV Magazine looking at the top solar companies he thinks will struggle in the near term. Who made the list? Read More »
Automakers have cautiously been exploring car sharing. The inherent conflict is that if more people share cars, fewer people will buy cars. But at CES this week Daimler said it plans to expand its car-sharing service Car2Go to 12 more cities this year. Read More »
Despite all the challenges, cleantech survived in 2011, says Adam Lesser, GigaOM Pro’s Green IT analyst. Or as Sheeraz Haji, the CEO of industry tracking research firm The Cleantech Group, informally titled his fourth-quarter-2011 presentation, “Cleantech Did Not Implode.” Read More »
Electric car maker Fisker Automotive ended 2011 with a couple hiccups: including a recall and a slower ramp up in production of its Karma. Now kicking off 2012, Fisker has decided to quietly double its current fund raising round from $150 million to $300 million. Read More »
Meter giant Landis+Gyr has snapped up smart meter data management company Ecologic Analytics, the companies announced on Tuesday. Ecologic Analytics has been around for over a decade, and Landis + Gyr was already a minority shareholder in the firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More »
Fuel cell maker ClearEdge Power has scored the mother of all utility deals: a 50 MW, $500 million deal with Austrian utility Güssing Renewable Energy. Read More »
The latest iteration of the One Laptop Per Child project was unveiled at CES, and it’s fully focused on integrating with off-grid clean power, both solar and human-generated. Many of the kids that could be using the laptop won’t have access to grid power. Read More »
The Indian government is reportedly looking to back around eight smart grid pilot projects in the country worth close to $100 million. The country will need an updated grid if it’s going to add 20 GW of utility-scale solar by 2020. Read More »
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