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BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Galante & Chediak |
Smart Meters May Not Be So Clever A consumer backlash is slowing rollouts of new electric meters   |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Sally Adee |
Eight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater Desalination takes too much energy, but emerging technologies will help |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
Home Theater
April 1, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Smart Meters Maybe Not So Smart Security holes may let hackers steal your juice. |
Food Engineering
November 1, 2005
Harry Forbes |
Energy Exclusive: Powering Your Bottom Line Energy, where you get it and how you use it, may impact your bottom line more this year than ever before. With the right knowledge, food and beverage plants can dramatically reduce these costs. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
G. Pascal Zachary |
Saving Smart Meters From a Backlash Fears of irradiation from antennas threaten to smother smart meters in the crib. |
Wired
Kevin Kelleher |
Make Conservation Simple (and Easy) A smart grid requires smart electric meters that let households track and manage their power consumption in real time. The key is making the meters easy to use. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Steve Nguyen |
The Future of Home Automation In the end, the infrastructure that a service provider creates to reach the shell of a home will be the catalyst for manufacturers, service companies and others to create the automated products that may one day make the home automation market what we always thought it could be. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2010
Michael Kanellos |
Why Pick WiMax, Mesh Over Power Line? Cost. CenterPoint Energy thought about becoming an Internet service provider. Utilities and power providers, meanwhile, may have to help consumers with home are networks. |
IDB America
May 2004
Daniel Drosdoff |
Barbados Acts to Prevent Water Crisis Geography and the tourism industry complicate the island's efforts to secure freshwater supplies. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2010 |
Oracle Sees Water as the Next Smart Grid New survey from Oracle concludes that smart metering technologies will drive conservation. |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Maybe the Smart Grid Is Dumb Regulators are forcing utilities that invested in the technology to wear a dunce cap. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Seema Singh |
Pumping Punjab Dry Cheap energy endangers India's ability to feed itself |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Utility to Drive Smart Grid Advances Drive a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and you'll get some idea of how we're driving our energy sector today. |
Popular Mechanics
March 25, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid. |
InternetNews
April 11, 2007
Michael Hickins |
IBM Jolts SOA to Save Energy IBM is helping electrical utilities re-energize their aging infrastructures. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
American Electric Power Gets Smart The company will work with General Electric to develop and install "smart meters" to help better manage the transmission of electricity, and give customers more direct control over how much they use, thus saving them money. |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
IndustryWeek
April 20, 2011 |
Powering Up: The Smart Grid's Next Steps While meters have received the bulk of the attention so far, the supply side is where the smart grid will be built. |
The Motley Fool
December 4, 2009 |
Behind the Business: 3 Questions for Badger Meter Badger Meter answers three questions for shareholders and potential investors. |
Chemistry World
February 2012 |
Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Are We Smart Enough for the Smart Grid? Where solar, ethanol, or similar alt-energy platforms require substantial investments, the Smart Grid allows start-ups to develop tools and devices to collect and organize the data on consumption to become the 10-baggers of the next decade. Here's how to profit from this next big thing. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Paul Wallich |
Putting the Meter Under the Microscope How a smart-meter kit changed my energy habits |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jean Kumagai |
Virtual Power Plants, Real Power Five kilowatts here, a hundred kilowatts there -- with a smart grid, it all adds up |
IDB America
September 2004
Paul Constance |
That Cursed Meter! Though frequently maligned, water meters in Puerto Cortes, Honduras have benefited the poorest consumers. |
IndustryWeek
August 18, 2010 |
Smart Grid Inches its Way Toward Reality Next-generation energy system promises industry improved power quality and reliability. |
CIO
October 27, 2014
Lauren Brousell |
Gamification Helps Utility Companies Change Customer Behavior ComEd, National Grid and other utilities use analytics to get consumers to compete with neighbors and encourage whole towns to conserve -- and earn rewards. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
William Sweet |
The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost? |
InternetNews
March 24, 2010 |
IBM Smart Grid Push Aims for Power Efficiency In a team-up with eMeter, IBM plans to help public utilities improve their power usage and efficiency. |
Fast Company
Dec 2014/Jan 2015
Jon Gertner |
We're Running Out Of Water As California's drought worsened, just north of San Diego a massive seawater desalination plant-moved closer to completion. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2010 |
DRIP Portfolio Candidate: Badger Meter Which manufacturing stock will make it into the DRIP Portfolio? |
CIO
November 19, 2010
Kim S. Nash |
How TXU Energy Uses ERP to Give Power to Customers The utility opened up its ERP data so customers can have more control over their electricity use. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
William Sweet |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme ConsumerPowerline, a four-year-old New York company, is showing its clients how to make money, and quite a lot of it, by not using electricity. |
InternetNews
July 28, 2009 |
Black Hat Exposes Smart Grid Security Risks Those smart meters may not be as smart as the name implies. |
BusinessWeek
December 17, 2009
Bruce Einhorn |
A Power Play for China's Electrical Grid With Beijing budgeting $600 billion to upgrade its network, global giants are racing to plug in. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010 |
The Coming Clash Between Water and Energy Our thirst for water competes with our hunger for energy. Only radical new ideas will get us out of this mess |
IndustryWeek
June 20, 2012 |
Can the U.S. Revitalize its Infrastructure? Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system. |
Wired
May 2005
Daniel H. Pink |
The New Power Generation Soccer moms, taco shops, even real estate developers - mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy. Call it the dawn of the hygrid age. |
Reason
June 2001
Michael W. Lynch & Adrian Moore |
Power Tripped Faulty re-regulation turns out the lights in the Golden State... |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2009
Toby Shute |
Giant Grants for the Smart Grid These companies will be some of the biggest beneficiaries of the recent grants targeted for the solar sector. |
IDB America
August 2005
Daniel Drossdoff |
From the Sea to the Kitchen How a new desalination technology is easing The Bahamas' age-old water problems. The plant was constructed on a build-own-operate contract and sells its entire production to The Bahamas Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC). |
Wired
January 2001 |
Power Players Today's energy meters suck, says Bruce Sterling. So he started an international race to design tomorrow's lean, green machine. And the winner is... |
The Motley Fool
August 7, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
A New Power Play: Negawatts "Demand management" companies are helping utilities and consumers use less energy. There are a few promising options for risk-tolerant investors. |
The Motley Fool
April 10, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
PG&E Plugs a Problem Pacific Gas & Electric shows how a new hybrid car could also power homes and businesses. Investors, this is a trend to watch. |
Bank Technology News
October 2008
Dan Sharplin |
Keep the Grid Going and Reap Rewards Instead of simply putting up with higher electric bills and periodic service disruptions, bank chains have a unique opportunity to become part of the energy solution-and to profit from it at the same time. |
