Archive for the 'energy' Category

May 04 2010

Utilities, operators collaborate on electric grid efficiency project

Published by Heather Clancy under energy,green tech,Smart Grid

A group of utilities and transmission systems operators affiliated with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) are getting together to share information about “transmission efficiency.” The goal of the collaborative is to analyze performance data from different grid projects in order to come up with a common framework around costs, benefits and technical needs associated with [...]

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May 04 2010

Green innovation takes spotlight at upcoming light-tech show

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,Smart Grid

Starting to hear some green tech buzz related to an upcoming commercial lighting show called Lightfair International. Given that many commercial building and facilities managers see lighting controls and advances as especially key to their energy efficiency goals, its little wonder that this is a focus for severa of the new products that I’ve heard [...]

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May 03 2010

Solar designer and architect goes public

Published by Heather Clancy under energy,renewable energy,solar

Shares of Envision Solar edged up 4.29 percent in the company’s first day of trading as a publicly traded company. OK, so the stock (EVSI is the symbol over-the-counter) closed as only 36.5 cents per share, so it wasn’t that much of a fluctuation, but the company did see a rather nice trading volume of [...]

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Apr 30 2010

For Greenpeace, ‘Cool IT’ means sensitivity to climate change, and Cisco is now tops

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,green tech

I know some of my colleagues have an issue with Greenpeace’s scare tactics on the environment, but you’ve got to admit that they are also really effective at getting big companies to pay attention to certain issues — such as the potential of technology to counteract climate change or reshape energy use. One of the ways [...]

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Apr 28 2010

HP or Cisco: Which data center approach is more sustainable?

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,data center,energy,green tech

I’m hunkered down in San Francisco this week, where I am attending the annual conference that Cisco holds for the thousands of its channel partners (resellers, network integrators, VARs, service providers, etc.) that it counts on to customize, deploy and support its technology. There is plenty of news for the tech-geek, but one of the more [...]

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Apr 27 2010

EcoDog wants to be homeowner’s best friend in energy efficiency monitoring

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,green tech

A module for monitoring solar technology generation is one of the new features in the latest edition of the FIDO Home Energy Watchdog system. Actually, the module can accommodate information from several different types of alternative energy sources, including solar, wind or emergency generators. FIDO Home Energy Monitoring System is an integrated hardware and software solution [...]

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Apr 27 2010

Enterprise energy management gets boost from Verdiem-Cisco OEM deal

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,green tech

You could sort of see this one coming. Verdiem, which develops energy management software for PCs and various pieces of the network has been tapped by Cisco as an OEM. Under the deal, Cisco will use next-generation energy management software from Veridiem as the foundation for new versions of Cisco EnergyWise Orchestrator. Essentially, the two are [...]

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Apr 26 2010

Federal green data center consolidation has begun, with storage

Published by Heather Clancy under climate change,conservation,data center,energy,engineering,green tech

A couple of months back, I wrote about how the federal government had begun a massive data center consolidation project on the road to seeking both green and operational efficiency. Well, looks like the feds have made progress already. Storage technology company 3PAR is reporting that 14 different federal government agencies have taken advantage of its [...]

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Apr 22 2010

Reading, writing and energy efficiency

Published by Heather Clancy under energy,green tech,local government,state government

After contemplating various school energy efficiency initiatives — made possible through technology — I’m becoming more and more convinced some ongoing budget woes could be addressed through heightened attention not just to electricity consumption but to the potential for renewable energy sources. Why waste money on power when you could save a teaching position? Let’s take [...]

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Apr 22 2010

Energy-efficient lighting dominates facilities managers’ energy efficiency efforts

Published by Heather Clancy under building,conservation,energy,green tech,renewable energy

Turns out there a really good reason that our posts about more efficient lighting technology tend to get more traffic than the norm here at GreenTech Pastures: Facilities managers polled as part of the latest Energy Efficiency Indicator point to lighting as not only their top energy-efficiency measure, but also the green technology that [...]

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