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Smart Grid

Smart Grid Growing Pains

August 23, 2010

Smart grid is generally seen as a “here and now” alternative energy source, something that we know how to do and just have to implement. But Colorado utility Xcel’s experience with its Boulder “Smart Grid City” program points to a longer, more complicated road. Consider:
SmartGridCity Meltdown: How Bad Is It?
When reports of cost overruns at [...]

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Infotech Giants Invade Smart Grid

March 18, 2010

Based on the behavior of solar and wind indexes (see TAN and FAN), there’s not much enthusiasm out there for clean tech stocks these days. But one part of this space that is rocking is smart grid, where companies like EnerNOC and Itron have put up great recent numbers and seen their shares turn [...]

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Smart Grid: “Bigger Than The Internet”

September 29, 2009

Smart grid is hot, no doubt about it. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, in fact, carried not one but two smart grid articles on its front page. The first talks about the effect of stimulus money on the field. Note the quote from Cisco’s CEO:
Stimulus Funds Speed Transformation Toward ‘Smart Grid’
The federal grants are expected to [...]

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Smart Grid Gold Rush

June 11, 2009

This month’s Discover Magazine explains why smart grid might be the hottest clean-tech niche of the coming decade. The article is available only to subscribers, so I’ll reprint part of it here:
Building an Interstate Highway System for Energy
06.10.2009
Tomorrow’s smart grid will keep the lights on and factories humming with clean (but fickle) renewable energy.
by Peter [...]

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The Supergrid: Key to an Alt-Energy Takeover

March 27, 2009

New Scientist just published an article explaining how “supergrids” of high-capacity direct-current power lines will speed up the transition to alternative energy. Some excerpts:
THOMAS EDISON might have relished the irony. Just as his most famous legacy, the incandescent light bulb, heads for extinction, his other great passion, direct electric current, is set to boom. The [...]

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