Via Smart Grid News, an interesting article that the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) is urging U.S. regulators to toss out the “traditional” utility business model and create energy services firms instead. These new-breed utilities would be rewarded for helping their customers become more energy efficient. “What we need to do is flip […]
Read more »Two interesting articles about consumers and the smart grid, and what really motivates conservation: money and a sense of ownership: The first – via Greentech Media – provides recent data from a survey put out by the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (with light green in graph below indicating “somewhat” and dark green indicating “strongly” increase […]
Read more »I saw an article recently on what GigaOm has called the “Googlization of solar,” the trend towards software, big data, and wireless networks combining to remake the modern energy infrastructure. While the article focuses adroitly on the different types of IT that may enable better/more efficient solar power (e.g. algorithms that control mirror position; smarter […]
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