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North Carolina Pilot Project Proves that Smart Meters Cut Back on Electricity Use

Wirelessly-connected smart grids are often heralded as the solution to our electricity-devouring ways, and now an IBM pilot project in North Carolina has proven that a grid equipped with smart meters (digital meters that record ...READ»

Trash Into Treasure: South Korea Builds First Landfill-Powered Hydrogen Station

Landfills now have a use besides stinking up large areas of land. The South Korean government is working on a project to produce hydrogen from natural biogases (aka methane) produces in landfills. The facility, which is being ...READ»

Security Expert Proves Hacking the Smart Grid Is a Snap

As with all wirelessly-connected electronic devices, smart meters--and in turn, the smart grid--are vulnerable to hackers. And if the smart grid is hacked, well, there goes the neighborhood's (or the city's) power. CNN recently ...READ»

Reliable Generators Are a Necessity for South Florida Hurricane Season

Hurricane season is probably the only season no one looks forward too; especially when you live in southern cities like Boca Raton or Houston. Safety is the number one priority in people’s minds once they are aware of a dangerous ...READ»

Tesco Uses Meat Power to Divert Waste From Landfills

British grocery chain Tesco has some good news: it has managed to divert 100% of its waste from landfills. But there's a catch: the chain is using expired meat to do it. Tesco is using over 5,000 tons of out-of-date meat to generate ...READ»

Good Cause, Good Ideas, Good Money

When I pull up to the village in which my mother grew up in Bangladesh, I feel like I'm on the set of a cowboy movie. Two long streets cross in the center, each bordered by a well-planned lineup of storefronts. From this ...READ»

What Will a Post-Waxman Markey Energy Future Look Like?

What would happen if we actually followed through on Waxman-Markey's emission cut requirements as they stand today? The Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit consortium of electricity-generating companies, takes a look in a new report. READ»

How To Make Electricity From Waste Onion Juice

Onion juice can do more than just make us sob; it can also be used for electricity. Gills Onions, a California wholesale producer of sliced, diced, slivered and puréed onions, introduced a system today to turn its 300,000 ...READ»

Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis

Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.READ»

Rice Power: Cisco, DFJ Award Seed Money to Husk Power Systems

Husk Power Systems, a startup that turns rice husks into energy, beat out over 1,000 competitors to win the Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco-sponsored Global Business Plan Competition.READ»

Cracking the Carbon Code

Smart businesses and investors will now need to crack “The Carbon Code” to figure out the winners and losers - - and just how much to adjust their business plans and portfolios.READ»

GE Shows Off Smart Grid-Aware Appliances [video]

The buzz about GE's Smart Appliances--microwaves, oven ranges, hot water heaters and dryers equipped with smart grid communication technology--has been building for months. Some of the appliances go into a low power mode when ...READ»

International Hydropower Association World Congress

  Melting banks. A tumbling currency. More lousy Björk singles. Iceland's pride has taken a pummeling over the past year. But delegates at this summit will discover that the Arctic nation still has one thing to boast ...READ»

PG&E's Smart-Grid Guru Explains What Keeps Him Up at Night

The digital-powered smart grid will have to overcome a lot of challenges before it's reality, and Andrew Tang, senior director of energy giant PG&E's Smart Energy Web, discussed those issues and what he's doing about them at ...READ»

What Happens if the Smart Grid Gets Hacked?

We've made a tacit agreement with the Internet to let it handle our business transactions, shopping, and daily communications, and yes, we've also agreed to accept the risk that our online lives could be disturbed by hackers. But ...READ»

AT&T Hops on the Smart Grid Train with SmartSynch

Our electrical grid is aging and teetering on collapse. Worst of all, it can't handle the energy coming from rapidly proliferating solar and wind plants. The technology du jour that promises to solve our problems is the ...READ»

mCube90G Smart Plug Lowers Your Electricity Bills

We're all guilty of burning a little more electrical energy than we need to in this gadgety world: dotted around my apartment I suspect there're at least five power adaptors plugged in 24-7 when they're only needed for a couple of ...READ»

Husk Power Systems: Rice-Fired Electricity

Founders: Manoj Sinha & Chip RanslerREAD»

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Bail-out or Build-out – Part 2

As the Presidential race nears the finish line - - with the candidates and voters both gasping for air amidst the ubiquitous onslaught of commercials on everything from lawn signs to Saturday Night Live - - there are no shortages of ...READ»

BRIDGING THE DIVIDE BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN INDIA IS MUST

BRIDGING THE DIVIDE BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN INDIA IS MUST This seems to be pre-occupation with the Federation of Indian Chamber of Agriculture, Trade and Services to address the issue of industrialisation of rural space in India in a ...READ»

HABITAT ENERGY PARKS- HOW TO EVOLVE LOCAL LEADERSHIP IN INDIA!

LOCAL POWER SOLUTIONS BY NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS! HABITAT ENERGY PARKS- HOW TO EVOLVE LOCAL LEADERSHIP IN INDIA! Could we imagine that sons and sons of Chief Ministers would be logical choice of leadership for us Indians? ...READ»