Nine more utilities, and three large energy vendors, announced support on Thursday for the Green Button project, which enables utility customers to download their energy consumption data with a click of a button and also use that data for energy-saving apps. Read more »
GE has made a strategic investment in solar thermal startup eSolar and has entered into a deal for an exclusive license to deploy eSolar’s technology in combination with natural gas power plants. Read more »
Cisco has gone beyond talking about its plans for the smart grid, but competing for space in utility substations will involve more than simply hardening some routers and ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
UPDATED High-profile cleantech investor Vinod Khosla has made his first publicly announced bet in the wind industry, backing Danotek Motion Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of advanced electrical generators for wind turbines. Khosla’s venture firm Khosla Ventures led the $13.2 million round of funding for the […] Read more »
General Electric has never hidden its intention to gobble up startups with promising technology in order to expand its business. The conglomerate followed through on that promise again on Monday with the announcement that its energy division has acquired ScanWind, a Norwegian developer of advanced drive […] Read more »
Many companies looking to manage the energy consumption of rooms and buildings often first turn to the power of wireless, because wireless standards like Zigbee can make energy management systems relatively cheap and easy to deploy. Not OutSmart, a 1.5-year-old startup based in Natick, Mass., which […] Read more »
[qi:083] The financial results are in, so in order to give you guys an idea of how the major U.S. carriers are doing, we’ve gathered together the relevant data from their fourth-quarter wireless results and laid them out below. It’s looking like cheap is chic and […] Read more »
