Archive for May, 2010

May 31 2010

Mississippi State drives home with year-two EcoCAR trophy

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

Engineering students from Mississippi State University were victorious at the end of the second year of the EcoCAR challenge, a green-tech design competition co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors.The university teams are being evaluated on their ability to create a vehicle that decreased fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, while retaining [...]

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May 28 2010

Bipartisan bills would stimulate electric vehicle infrastructure

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

What’s this? Legislation that both Republicans and Democrats are pushing? Together? Too bad that the industry they are trying to support, automobile makers, appear less than excited about their idea.Both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate have proposed legislation calling for work on creating the foundation for electric vehicles to be used more broadly. [...]

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May 27 2010

Water, logged: Software now calculates water footprint

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One of the developers in the environmental compliance management software space, Locus Technologies, has added the ability to track water footprint-related information.Water accounting covers two different concerns: the quantity of water that your business uses and the quality of the water it discharges. The latter comes in the form of keeping tabs on groundwater and [...]

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May 27 2010

Changing tides: U.S. okays wave-energy facility permit

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

It is perhaps not all that ironic that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has apparently given the green light to a permit that will enable a company called Renew Blue to create what is described as the first commercial-class wave-powered facility in the very place that is the center of tremendous energy controversy right [...]

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May 27 2010

Microsoft: Design enterprise apps to be energy-aware

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

When it comes to data centers, Microsoft and eBay think very much alike. At least in the sense that they both believe that one thing — the availability of electricity — will be the ultimate dictator of data center design principles in the next decade.I wrote about eBay’s new data center growth philosophy last week [...]

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May 27 2010

Patent office reboots green tech patent program

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

Last week, I wrote about the government’s plan to accelerate the handout of green technology patents, because I was perplexed by the fact that more companies weren’t taking advantage of the program. Apparently, according to intellectual property experts, one reason for the slow uptake has been the fact that the classification categories it covered were [...]

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May 26 2010

Ready to turn on the AC? Check your Microsoft Hohm energy efficiency score first

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

Microsoft picked a fabulous day to release its new Hohm Scores service, which is a database cataloging the energy efficiency of 60 million homes in the United States.Here in New Jersey, I just broke down and turned on the air conditioning for the first time this spring after I realized how crabby I was getting [...]

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May 26 2010

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May 26 2010

Coming soon to a substation near you: Cisco’s first purpose-built smart grid tech

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

Delivering on its CEO’s April promise to get more aggressive about the $20 billion smart grid opportunity, Cisco is planning to release its first two purpose-built smart grid products.Sanket Amberkar, senior director of Smart Grid Strategy for Cisco, said the Cisco Connected Grid Router 2010 (CGR 2010) and the Cisco Connected Grid Switch 2520 (CGS [...]

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May 26 2010

Scads of new smart grid research

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

Because I know you just can’t get enough of the smart grid and smart meters, I wanted to direct your attention to new research outlining concerns for (among?) those building out these new technologies.The first is a new report from EcoAlign that illustrates the very real consumer perception problem that utility companies face as they [...]

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