Here’s a follow-on to my post about rethinking our relationships with our power utilities. According to my friends at the SmartGridNews, it appears that the State of Massachusetts may be in the process of doing exactly that. It wasn’t that …
Asking Our Power Utilities To Take the Plunge into Smart Grid Read More »
Here’s a Scientific American article on the problems that have been created in the Hawaiian electric power grid by the rapid expansion of PV. Is this an effort on the part of HECO (Hawaii Electric Company) to halt the incursion into …
Christmas Wish – Let’s Rethink Our Relationship with Our Power Utilities Read More »
I recall with fondness the days in which I served as a marketing consultant to the large tech companies of the world, and, in particular, my work for a few clients who are currently active in renewable energy. The Swiss …
I’m not sure I made too many new friends on the talk radio show I did this morning on a politically conservative AM station in Arizona – a red state if there ever were one. I mentioned that the U.S. …
Clean Energy Radio, Aviation Emissions, and Smart Grid Read More »
Does the world pay attention when little ol’ Craig Shields says that the power utilities are in trouble, due to distributed generation and microgrids? Hardly. But when the best minds at Citibank (see article linked above) say essentially the same …
The future smart city has many opportunities for innovative power solutions, whereby energy fields that are all around us could be used to collect this energy and harness its power. These include light, heat and sound. This infographic takes a …
From Guest Blogger Richard Keane: Welcome To Energy Harvesting — The Future Smart City Read More »
When I first saw the little relatively isolated 110 house neighborhood where I currently live I thought it would be interesting to set up a microgrid so the neighborhood could be independent of the grid when required. I am sure …
From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Microgrid on an Island Read More »
For 25 years, I made my living as a marketing consultant to the Fortune-sized tech and industrial companies: IBM, HP, FedEx, Sony, etc. My company, Mueller/Shields, had a few defining characteristics in its approach that we tried to make a …
Smart Grid: Addressing the Hot-Buttons of the Target Market Read More »
Here’s a free webinar on smart cities from research firm Frost and Sullivan that I think I’ll attend. They see the subject growing in importance to a $3.3 trillion industry by 2025. Needless to say, that’s a huge amount of …
Here’s a wonderful article that explains how smart grid and the adoption of electric vehicles really depend upon one another. Like so many of the other things we cover here on a daily basis, the question isn’t “Are we going …
Smart Grid and Electric Vehicles Fit Together Hand In Glove Read More »
