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Can Carbon Nanotubes Cut Energy Consumption?

Nanotubes are the scientific miracle material that has been looking for a job. Nanocomp says it can weave wires from them.

Grid

Michael Kanellos May 11, 2009

Comverge Reports $9.1M First Quarter Loss

The East Hanover, N.J.-based demand response provider has seen growing revenues amidst a wider array of businesses — including residential and utility turnkey businesses — than its competitors.

Grid

Jeff St. John May 7, 2009

The Latest Players in Smart Grid: Radio Stations

With the available spectrum on the radio data system and partnerships with utilities and thermostat makers, radio stations could become giants in energy management.

Grid

Michael Kanellos and Jeff St. John May 6, 2009

PowerIt Lands $6M for Industrial Energy Efficiency

Seattle-based PowerIt Solutions has landed $6 million from existing investors and new investors Siemens Venture Capital and ArcelorMittal to expand its business of helping industrial sites cut power.

Grid

Jeff St. John May 5, 2009

Top Ten Smart Grid

What companies are leading the charge toward a smart grid of the future? And, who are the utilities that are taking the lead in giving them a market? We’ve broken down the smart grid sector into a number of broad components areas – smart meter manufacturing, neighborhood-area meter networking and communication, in-home energy management, demand response, meter data management, other smart grid software and services, and the broader role of integrating these areas.

Grid

Jeff St. John April 30, 2009

Tropos: WiFi for the Smart Grid

The long-time municipal WiFi provider is making a push into networking utility smart grid projects, providing the link between neighborhood smart meter networks and utility "backhaul" networks.

Grid

Jeff St. John April 14, 2009

Will Utilities Control Your TV?

The ZigBee Alliance and a consortium including Sony, Panasonic, Philips and Samsung have agreed on a ZigBee-based remote control standard. Home energy monitoring and control makers say that's a route into controlling TVs and other devices using their favorite wireless standard.

Grid

Jeff St. John March 3, 2009

Verdiem's Next Frontier: The Phone

The people who cut power to PCs want to do the same with your phone via software that could put your phone into a sleep mode. But there are challenges.

Grid

Michael Kanellos February 24, 2009

A Smart Grid for Water

HydroPoint Data Systems says it can help corporations calculate their water requirements to cut down on inefficiency.

Grid

Michael Kanellos February 18, 2009

A V2G Test: Pool Electric Cars for Grid Needs

A consortium seeking to make plug-in vehicles an aggregated resource for utilities and grid operators is demonstrating its ideas. It's among a number of pilot projects seeking to find ways to integrate the electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle fleets of the future into an increasingly "smart" grid.

Grid

Jeff St. John February 5, 2009

A Broadband Smart Grid?

Could broadband Internet connections replace smart meters as the communication pipeline of choice for homes and utilities to coordinate energy-saving home devices and networks? Maybe not, but they could be a way to get started.

Grid

Jeff St. John February 5, 2009

eMeter: Data-Keeper for the Smart Grid

The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup, which landed a contract with Texas utility CenterPoint on Monday, makes software that manages the flood of data coming from smart meters being deployed by utilities around the country.

Grid

Jeff St. John February 2, 2009

Cisco's EnergyWise: By the Numbers

Cisco says it will save you power with a new console that controls phones, PCs, servers and buildlings. Here are there stats on how it works.

Grid

Jeff St. John January 26, 2009

Cisco Jumps Into Energy Management for Computers, Buildings

The networking giant is launching EnergyWise – software that will run on top of its network to help businesses cut down on the electricity going to phones, computers, building HVAC and lighting systems and a whole array of devices.

Grid

Jeff St. John January 26, 2009

Will Smart Grid See a Push for Power-Line Networking?

Rather than using wireless, some companies say utilities should control streetlights and other devices by communcating over the power line.

Grid

Michael Kanellos December 3, 2008

TerraWatt Closing on $1.5M for Inverters

A new solar-inverter company, a spinoff of Advanced Energy Conversion, is raising $1.5 million for its technology to keep its customers power on, even if the grid has an outage.

Grid

Jennifer Kho October 13, 2008

Silver Spring Grabs $75M

The startup joins a growing number of smart-meter technology developers that are attracting hefty investments.

Grid

Ucilia Wang October 7, 2008

Q&A: MegaWatt Storage Targets Utilities

The co-founder of the two-year-old startup in California says the company is seeking funding for developing energy storage centers for power companies.

Grid

Ucilia Wang September 17, 2008

Laying the Grid Groundwork for Plug-In Hybrids

GridPoint and Duke Energy say they have tested a technology that would prevent charging during times of peak demand, while EPRI and Ford pair to integrate plug-in hybrids into the grid.

Grid

Jennifer Kho March 27, 2008

Good News Expected for Energy Management

Analysts are betting energy-management companies will pull in healthy quarterly earnings. Thursday, they will start of proving whether they are right.

Grid

Rachel Barron November 1, 2007

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