Archive for the 'green tech' Category

Apr 21 2010

SmartSynch, AuthenTec team up in strategic smart grid security relationship

Published by Heather Clancy under green tech,Smart Grid

You could probably see this one coming, but now it’s official: Smart grid infrastructure player SmartSynch has signed a deal with AuthenTec to add what it is calling “carrier-grade” open security standards to its product line. AuthenTec’s security — which covers everything from identity management to touch controls and biometrics — actually already is part of [...]

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Apr 20 2010

Cisco kicks off Earth Day activities with X Prize sponsorship

Published by Heather Clancy under green tech

Teenagers have the radical X games. Environmentally minded adults have the X Prize, which is an annual competition that spans several categories of radical technology innovation, including Energy & Environment. Now, Cisco has managed to finagle a presenting sponsorship for the non-profit X Prize Foundation’s Energy & Environment Group. What this means, in a nutshell, is [...]

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Apr 20 2010

Smart grid backlash? Survey finds consumers leery of automated energy management plays

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

This one crossed my inbox this morning, but my colleague Larry Dignan was quicker on the uptake. He’s got an article over at SmartPlanet about a new survey released by Accenture. The high-level results, which represent the opinions of about 9,000 consumers from all over the world, indicate that many people are skeptical of technologies [...]

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Apr 20 2010

Upstarts work toward greener, more efficient solar technology

Published by Heather Clancy under energy,environmental health,green tech,renewable energy,solar

Have had conversations in the past few weeks with two very different companies that actually have a pretty similar mission, if you dig deeper: Making solar technology as green and energy-efficient as possible. I’m sure there are many more companies like these in the wings, so I’ll make it a point to keep an eye [...]

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Apr 20 2010

Government raises bar on green tech standards for the home

Published by Heather Clancy under building,conservation,energy,environmental health,green tech,water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to make the requirements for earning an Energy Star designation for your home more rigorous. The standards are supposed to result in the creation of new homes that about 20 percent more energy-efficient than those conforming to the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code. This would translate into utility [...]

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Apr 19 2010

No power line for your mobile base station? Alcatel-Lucent says think renewable

Published by Heather Clancy under green tech,research,solar,wind

Here’s a trick question for you: How do you power mobile telecommunications base stations in the middle of nowhere, especially in developing countries where there’s no electricity line in sight. Apparently, the standard operating procedure has been to schlep diesel fuel from location to location, with a four-wheel drive vehicle, hoping not to attract the attention [...]

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Apr 19 2010

TREES grows in Brooklyn

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,environmental health,green tech

Carbon accounting software developer TRIRIGA has scored another high-profile reference account for its TREES environmental sustainability software: New York City. (TREES stands for TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability.) The city government will be using the software to manage carbon emissions and energy consumption information across more than 4,000 government buildings. This is no small project: New [...]

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Apr 16 2010

APC power surge promo benefits Earth Day

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,green tech

One week to go until Earth Day on April 22, and I am growing a bit weary of many of the eco-timed pitches. One that leapt out of my crowded in-box: a promo associated with surge protector/uninterruptible power supply (UPS) company APC by Schneider Electric. It’s pretty simple: If you buy anything from the APC Power-Savings [...]

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Apr 16 2010

Updates unfurled for two enviro software apps

Published by Heather Clancy under environmental software,green tech

Enviance and FirstCarbon Solutions, which both develop enterprise software for tracking various aspects of corporate environmental information, this week added new features to their offerings. Here’s the rundown: 1) Enviance has released version 6.4 of the Enviance System and Enviance Quick Data 2.0. The main System now features customized dashboards. That means, simply, that whomever is [...]

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Apr 16 2010

New remote monitoring app for energy insight

Published by Heather Clancy under energy,green tech

Schneider Electric is launching a new online energy monitoring application for facility managers, operations types or anyone else who needs better insight into the power consumption of a given building — even when they’re not actually IN the building. The new Web application is called EnergyView Online, and it picks up information from a building’s new [...]

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