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Grid Scale Energy Storage: Technologies and Forecasts Through 2015
August 17, 2009

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AlertMe Raises £8M for Home Energy Management

The Cambridge, U.K.-based startup is seeking to bring its energy management devices into homes as an add-on to its home security systems – a strategy shared by others in the field.

Transmission & Distribution

Schwarzenegger: Permitting Process Too Complicated

The California governor signed an executive order to compel state agencies to expedite the permitting process for building alternative energy power plants and transmission lines and dealing with environmental backlash.

Grid
Ucilia Wang November 17, 2008
Google Plays U.S.-China Matchmaker

Google.org is giving $250,000 to the U.S. National Academies to fund a study on how the United States and China can collaborate on solar and wind energy generation, energy storage and grid tech.

Solar
Ucilia Wang October 21, 2008
National Grid: Dream or Reality?

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell told a solar conference crowd that she will tackle the complex issue of regulating utilities and building new transmission lines at a time when money is tough to come by.

Solar
Ucilia Wang October 16, 2008
Peak Power Developing Second Hump

With peak power demand surging past the traditional 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm window, utilities will have to fight the possibility of more brownouts.

Grid
Michael Kanellos October 16, 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
Energy Biz Boosts GE, Solar Stocks Still Battered

The financial market crisis has made this a hellish week for solar companies – even for thin-film solar star First Solar. GE saw a 22 percent profit decline in the third quarter, but did brisk business in energy.

Grid
Ucilia Wang October 10, 2008
Texas Consortium Seeks $4.93B for Transmission Lines

Six companies plan to file a proposal to build 2,400 miles of transmission lines in Texas to support a growing number of wind farms in the state.

Grid
Ucilia Wang September 12, 2008
Pa. Judges Recommend Blocking Transmission Line

Administrative law judges question whether the line is really necessary and say it could encourage more coal-fired power plants. Allegheny Energy disagrees and awaits a final decision by the state Public Utilities Commission.

Grid
Jennifer Kho August 22, 2008
Duke, AEP to Spend $1B on New Transmission Lines

The two utilities plan to erect a 240-mile system in Indiana to ferry the new energy, including wind power, generated from the region.

Grid
Ucilia Wang August 11, 2008
Wind Power Waiting on Transmission-Line Boom

Transmission lines are becoming the single-largest obstacle to the continuing growth of U.S. wind power. But some investors, such as T. Boone Pickens, view the barrier as an equally large opportunity.

Grid
Dave Englander July 25, 2008