Using genetically modified organisms, LanzaTech is looking to turn the world's industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals.…
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A new power grid battery emerges with a deal from Siemens
A new type of low cost power grid battery, backed by Bill Gates and VCs like Kleiner Perkins, uses basic materials and has an important deal with power grid giant Siemens.…
Read MoreThe massive London Array offshore wind farm is finally done and it’s awesome
One of the world's largest offshore wind farms -- it can power half-a-million homes a year -- has been fully built off the coast of England.…
Read MoreNokia solidifies mobile broadband role by buying out Siemens’s NSN stake
The €1.7 billion deal will take the Siemens out of Nokia Siemens Networks in the coming quarter, assuming regulators show the green light. The early market response has been positive.…
Read MoreWhy Siemens has had a hard time selling its solar tech
Siemens is planning a big layoff after it couldn't find a buyer for its solar thermal technology, for which it paid $418 million in 2009.…
Read MoreEuropean power giant E.ON partners with Ericsson on grid big data
Power grid operators and utilities are increasingly turning to big data analytics and tools. This week European power giant E.ON said it plans to work with Ericsson for a smart meter data project in Sweden.…
Read MoreSiemens and Teradata team up over grid big data
Utilities are increasingly embracing the tools needed to manage big data, and on Monday data warehouse software firm Teradata said it's teamed up with power grid giant Siemens for a better way to manage the massive data flowing off the smart grid.…
Read MoreHow to keep innovation alive in the smart grid
Keeping the innovation ecosystem alive in the smart grid will depend on the big players like Silver Spring taking an active role working with startups.…
Read MoreEnergy giants back BuildingIQ and its machine learning, energy data software
Data and machine learning are breakthroughs for the energy efficiency of buildings. Startup BuildingIQ is using these tools to grow its building energy optimization business, and it's just brought on some major energy industry backers.…
Read MoreGoogle invests $200M in Texas wind farm, backed a Hoover Dam worth of clean power
Google has now invested in a Hoover Dam's worth -- or 2 GW -- of clean power. The latest investment, announced on Wednesday is a $200 million equity stake into a wind farm in Texas.…
Read MoreWind power embraces the circuit board design, via a startup
A Colorado startup has come up a light-weight motor for wind turbine generators that borrows the design of a printed circuit board. Boulder Wind Power is lining up its first customer that plans to give its technology a try.…
Read MoreThe solar saga continues: Siemens flees solar market
Energy giant Siemens is leaving the solar market after investing heavily in solar technology and power plant construction. The decision is bad news for startups looking for corporate VCs.…
Read More10 solar projects in India that can help fight grid blackouts
While the massive blackouts in India are focusing attention on the opportunities for clean power in India, the country already has many solar projects under way. Here are some of the most notable and promising efforts.…
Read More5 smart energy projects with big potential
Today's itinerary takes us to Arizona, where researchers have developed a mirror technology they hope can make solar competitive. Next stop is a city in Massachusetts, which is a poster child for energy efficiency savings that other cash-strapped cities may find instructive; Plus three other projects.…
Read MoreSCADA is dead, long live IP
There is no mistaking that SCADA (traditional control networks for utilities) is under assault. Over the past several years, wireless IP-based communication networks have proven to be worthy for distribution automation applications.…
Read MoreThe next hot smart grid market: Brazil
With its booming economy, growing middle class and investments in city infrastructure, Brazil is looking to be the next hot market for smart grid development.…
Read MoreChina building super highway for clean power
China likes to do things on a grand scale, which allows it serve its vast population spreading out in huge regions and brag about its technical advancements. Here comes another one: the country is now building a transmission line with a whopping 800-kilovolt of capacity that will ferry wind and solar power over 2,210 kilometers (1,373 miles).…
Read MoreTough for Telefónica as Euro mobile goes down the pan
Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica -- the world's third-largest mobile firm -- saw profits cut in half after a troubled year. With Nokia, Siemens and Deutsche Telekom all facing a torrid time, is the writing on the wall for Europe's mobile businesses?…
Read MoreSiemens, ABB make major grid gear plays
Not all the opportunities in the smart grid are about big data and analytics. Power gear giants Siemens and ABB unveiled separately that they plan to make large grid gear acquisitions. Siemens will buy RuggedCom, and ABB will buy Thomas & Betts Corp.…
Read MoreTendril test-drives its electric car software with BMW
After a variety of strategies and around $100 million in funding, startup Tendril is now largely a software company, and on Tuesday at the DistribuTECH conference in San Antonio, Tendril announced a big partner in its play to provide the software layer for electric vehicles: BMW.…
Read MoreNokia Siemens reaches for a $1.6 billion lifeline
With no more money from its corporate parents forthcoming and few remaining businesses to sell, Nokia Siemens Networks has gone to European and U.S. banks for the funding it needs to restructure and survive. Will $1.6 million be enough to set it on course?…
Read More2012: Questions on the road ahead to the smart grid
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 MoreLandis+Gyr snaps up Ecologic Analytics for grid big data
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 MoreNSN sells wireline business to Adtran. Here is why.
Nokia Siemens Networks said it will sell its wireline broadband assets to ADTRAN for an undisclosed amount. The deal is the second in as many months for NSN, which had previously been hoping to find a buyer for the whole business.…
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