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Solar subsidies evaporating, but big projects still get greenlight

Heather Clancy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:30:49 +0000

There’s an article today on our SmartPlanet sister site that provides a good overview of the current state of rebates and funding programs for solar projects in the United States. The bad news is that the economic climate still is making it tough to get installations off the ground (ditto with wind projects, as I [...]

Get a charge out of this: Coulomb electric vehicle chargers hit San Jose, New York

Heather Clancy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:22:11 +0000

It has been a busy month for electric vehicle charging infrastructure technology company Coulomb Technologies, which now has installed its first Network Charging Stations in San Jose, Calif. The city actually was Coulomb’s first customer, apparently.
The first public site using Coulomb technology in San Jose is at the McEnery Convention parking lot in downtown San [...]

Eaton uninterruptible power supply helps you earn LEED credits

Heather Clancy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:36:11 +0000

Could your choice of power supply help in your quest to earn a certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program? Eaton suggests that it can, and it is holding up one of its three-phase power protection products as an example.
According to Eaton, the company’s Eaton 9395 uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is [...]

EPA: Yup, greenhouse gases still unhealthy

Heather Clancy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:22:03 +0000

Why do I have the feeling that we’ll be arguing this point for the rest of my life and probably the lives of my niece and nephew, to boot?
Thought it worth pointing out that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today said that after “months of serious consideration” it has rejected 10 petitions that challenged its [...]

Something in the air: New wind project installations taper

Heather Clancy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:15:37 +0000

Texas still holds lead for new activity.

Something in the air: New wind project installations taper

Heather Clancy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:15:37 +0000

Texas still holds lead for new activity.

Are unused virtual machines sapping server power? One free way to find out

Heather Clancy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:44:04 +0000

Those of you who appreciated my brief (yet effective) post a couple of weeks back about a free Windows client power manager (and there were many of you, thanks!) will appreciate knowing about this second bit of freeware from Microsoft partner NetWrix: a utility for eradicating virtual server sprawl.
The pitch for the NetWrix Virtual Machine [...]

Are unused virtual machines sapping server power? One free way to find out

Heather Clancy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:44:04 +0000

Electric vehicle outlook gets curiouser and curiouser

Heather Clancy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:14:10 +0000

To say that the legislative picture regarding government support for electric vehicles is blurry would be a serious understatement. Not to get political, but the challenge is that right now much of the support for promoting and testing the nationwide (if not national) infrastructure that we need to get electric vehicles on the road is [...]

Green IT: Great intentions, no budget

Heather Clancy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:58:55 +0000

Why doesn’t this surprise me? Forrester Research is reporting that barely one-quarter of all businesses have any kind of budget for what would be considered green IT activities, even though 45 percent are embracing a strategy related to green IT and another third are considering it.
As I reported about two weeks ago, Forrester’s regular surveys [...]