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 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 »
Khosla Ventures recently led a round of $5 million in financing for Bidgely, a smart grid start-up that “disaggregates” data from a customer’s smart meter. Now, for instance, household members can be told, “That old refrigerator is costing you $148 …
Here’s an article that got my attention: How To Get Rich In Smart Grid. This has always impressed me as an important challenge, as a) I’m very bullish on the sector, and b) the large cap stocks that constitute most …
I’ve often said that I expect France to lead the way in terms of the adoption of clean energy, for two main reasons: 1) They’re self-styled; they don’t ask permission; they just do what they think is right. They refer …
Ontario, Canada is well known as a leader in the adoption of clean energy technology. Their fabled feed-in-tariffs have provided incentive for developers all over the globe to site renewable energy projects in the province. And certainly their adoption of …
Ontario, Canada — A Smart Grid Leader By Any Standards Read More »
Here’s an article that illustrates a principle I often discuss here: the lack of proper incentives and regulation to get the power utilities to embrace energy efficiency. As a society, we need to use less energy, but that will only …
Energy Efficiency Sounds So Good, But Where Are the Incentives To Make It Happen? Read More »
Frequent commenter John Roche writes: It’s been interesting reading your blogs. I’ll say I’m for the environment and have taken some renewable energy classes to complement my technical background. Will probably even install solar on mine and a friend’s house. …
As Jon Wellinghoff steps down from his position as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) we read various articles summing up his accomplishments. In my estimation, Wellinghoff will be best remembered for establishing “dynamic pricing,” aligning consumer and …
Here’s an article suggesting that electric transportation saves lives insofar as its environmental benefits reduce global warming, and heat causes more deaths each year. Sadly, this is an oversimplification. As long as coal is our lowest-cost base-load energy source, EVs …
Electric Transportation and Coal-Fired Power Plants Read More »
