California Keeps Crushing America’s Clean Energy And Tech Rankings
Even though California once again dominates Clean Edge’s annual Clean Tech Leadership Index, clean energy keeps growing in almost every corner of America.
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Global Smart Meter Market Drops 15 Percent in 1Q 2012
Global smart meter shipments fell 15 percent in the first quarter of 2012, reports Pike Research. […]
1/3 Households Own a Smart Meter
Electric utility companies have been making good progress upgrading their customer base with smart meters, and a new study shows that nearly one in three households now have a smart meter, up from one in four households just last September. The Institute or Electric Efficiency (IEE) produced a report … [continued]
How to Stop Smart Meter Opt-Out Mandates from Advancing Across America?
Smart meter opt-out mandates are popping up across the United States, threatening utility smart grid efforts. But the key to data security, one of the major hurdles to consumer acceptance, may be held by a set of privacy rules debuting in Southern California.
California Utility Customers Can “Opt-Out” of Smart Meters
In a decision that could have major implications for smart grid efforts around the country, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) yesterday ruled that utility customers could opt-out of smart meter installations.
Green Community Competition in Saitama, Japan — Public vs. Private Sector
Clean energy is definitely a great thing for the average consumer – but it’s a little hard to get and it’s not easy to ensure a steady and sufficient supply from 100% green sources. Cue the formation of several coalitions testing the idea of a green neighborhood to see just how clean, energy efficient, and […]
Rome Welcomes EVs With Toshiba Smart Grid
The city of Rome, Italy is poised to welcome electric cars to its streets, according to Toshiba. The electronics giant announced this week that its Italian subsidiary Ansaldo Transmissione & Distribuzione S.p.A (Ansaldo T&D) won a contract to supply a smart grid distribution system to ACEA Distribuzione S.p.A (Gruppo ACEA), one of Italy’s leading public utilities. The system will include solar power arrays and storage batteries, as well as a control unit and smart meters.
Why Upcoming EV Nissan Leaf Needs to Be the Most Geeked-Out Car
Nissan is on tour promoting its upcoming electric vehicle, the Leaf, in select cities across the U.S. The 5-passenger EV will become available in December 2010, and faces many challenges in fostering a supporting vehicle charging infrastructure and creating consumer-friendly financing options, but thus far they seem to have a … [continued]
IBM and Trilliant Team to Simplify Smart Grid
Turning the country’s vast islands of proprietary utility networks and isolated power equipment into an intelligent grid that manages the power going into homes, offices and factories will take decades and hundreds of billions of dollars. IBM is partnering with veteran energy efficiency and grid communications company Trilliant to ensure … [continued]
Smart Grid Needs High-Level Policy Push
Some projects are just too big to let the private sector handle them alone. Updating our aging one-way system of centralized power production to a smart grid is one of those projects. Left mostly to its own initiative, the energy industry has done very little in technology innovation during the … [continued]
