A public official with a sense of humor is seriously refreshing. The DOE’s Chief Steven Chu sings praise for a particularly funny article in The Onion entitled, “Report: Global Warming Issue From 2 or 3 Years Ago May Still Be Problem,” on his official Facebook page. Read More »
Smart meter systems, like cellphone networks, transmit and crunch a lot of real-time customer data, and customers don’t particularly like it when their bills don’t come out right. But tools that phone companies use to make sure bills are accurate can also help utilities. Read More »
The future of work is distributed, made up of employees scattered across the globe connected via broadband networks. My company calls this phenomenon “the human cloud,” but to me, the human cloud is another example of how broadband can make our systems more energy efficient. Read More »
California’s grand experiment with power market deregulation ended with a bang in 2001, when Enron-engineered rolling blackouts. But in Texas, power market deregulation — or competition, as folks down here prefer to name it — is in full swing. Read More »
Who says solar is having a tough year — solar bell weather SunPower announced sunny third quarter earnings today, with boosted revenues and profits beating analysts expectations. Read More »
While some consumer electronics companies are taking solid steps to green-up how they produce, package and recycle their gadgets, the industry still has a long way to go. Which is why we need more educational pieces like this animated video created by Annie Leonard. Read More »
Rock star computer scientist David Gelernter has been credited with predicting the rise of the Internet in the 90s with his book “Mirror Worlds.” Did he foresee a fundamental way to make our systems more efficient and fight climate change, too? Read More »
GE plans to buy 25,000 electric vehicles, which would be the largest single purchase of electric vehicles to date. The move is an example of how corporations often times play a crucial role in being the early adopters of new green technology long before consumers. Read More »
Here’s our first SUV on the Green Overdrive show, where if it’s green we drive it. For this week’s episode we check out a Ford Escape Hybrid, which is one of 20 prototypes that Ford built for its utility partners. Read More »
While Google has quietly been looking into ways to make weather forecasting data better, here’s a startup that just came out of the wood work that’s already doing it: Onsemble, which has developed a business around collecting wind data at the height of the wind turbine. Read More »
What makes a smart grid pilot a success — even when it’s a failure? General Electric and Accenture spent an hour Wednesday with some energy industry big shots at the World Economic Forum in Atlanta and explained it all to us. Read More »
One of China’s largest automakers has tapped A123 Systems to supply lithium-ion batteries for an electric car slated to roll out in 2012. The deal was a silver lining to the disappointing earnings it reported yesterday for the three months ending September 30. Read More »
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