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Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.

More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray

Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-25

More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.

Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for future construction. But one thing that has been ultra controversial on the Big Island has been wind power for the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-19

Silver Spring Networks boasts smart grid network in action

OK, oil just hit another high today, and it's getting easier and easier to cash $100 bills at my local gas station. They used to give me trouble for changing a $50. Harry does a much better job of blogging about energy sources than me (because IT is my thing...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Network, Utility, Technology, Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Where's the greenest city of them all?

It shouldn't shock you to hear that I receive a lot of pitches for this blog. (Which is a very good thing for ideas, actually, so keep them coming.) One trend I've noticed is that many of what I'll call the "real" green-tech efforts and experiments are...

Tags: Alternative Energy, City, Idea, Singapore, Wall, Southern California Edison, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-11-08

When it comes to electrical grid, smarter is greener

Got a dispatch out of Rosemead, California: "Southern California Edison Unveils Nation's Smartest Neighborhood Electricity Grid." The document goes on to cover what the utility calls the "Circuit of the Future," a project serving 1,420 homes and businesses in an area called the "Inland Empire." The project is designed...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Fiber-optics, Power Generation, Grid, Southern California Edison, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Are you willing to pay more for a green tech supplier?

How much does a particular supplier's green profile affect your decision to sign on the dotted line? I will answer this question personally and say that up until now, not much. I couldn't tell you, for example, where it's really best to buy your gasoline. (Because,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Rackspace, Green Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-10-11

Chevron fuels debate over conservation, alternative energy

I'll be the first to admit, much to the detriment of my profession, that I don't usually look at the advertising in print magazines. But a splash spread by Chevron in The Week caught my eye. The ad was for a Web site Chevron has started...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Chevron Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-28

The Dell of green-tech alternatives?

Standard Renewable Energy CEO John Berger is on a mission to make residential green-tech retrofits as simple as buying a custom computer from Dell. Essentially, the Galveston, Texas, company is a systems integrator for alternative energy. Its mantra is Review, Reduce and Renew, and its team provides...

Tags: Alternative Energy, HVAC, Dell Computer Corp., Bottom Line, John Berger, Standard Renewable, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-14

In renewable energy, every little bit counts

Putting my bleeding heart hat on to point out the efforts of a 13-year-old non-profit group called E+Co, which has started a Web site called EnergyCures.com.The site focuses on projects in emerging countries that make use of alternative energy in emerging nations. Here are some of the examples. Its ultimate...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-08-24

Additional Resources

The cost of solar cells [video]

At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins will narrow, they disagree on whether there will be an industry wide shakeout, or if the...

Tags: Managing Director, Silicon Wafer, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Video, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

The cost of creating solar cells

At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins will narrow, they disagree on whether there will be an industry wide shakeout, or if the...

Tags: Managing Director, Silicon Wafer, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, solar, energy, cells, silicon, polysilicon, silicon wafers, green, enviromental

Videos 2008-12-04

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...

Tags: Consumer, U.S., Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Nuclear fusion as future power source

MIT researchers have used their Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor, in operation since 1993, to bring the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality. As you probably know, fusion is the reaction that produces the sun's energy and it has an 'enormous potential for future...

Tags: Plasma, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Fusion, Fusion Reactor, V, Construction, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-04

First cell towers, now solar panels? Expect squawking over "appropriate" sites

Last year, there was a major fight in my modest-sized north New Jersey town over whether or not there should be a cellular tower built up at the high school. Are we destined to start hearing the same sort of flack about solar panels? Over the past...

Tags: Solar Panel, Southern California Edison, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-04

News to know: Adobe; Windows 7; Sun; SOA; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study Michael...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Antivirus, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Linux, Web Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Live Webcast: Energy Efficient Data Centers - Lower Costs, Greener Outcomes

The centerpiece of the industry's current focus on green IT is the corporate data center, the most visible energy hog in the IT landscape. Many companies are convinced they need to make their data center more efficient, but are unsure of which steps to pursue, and in what sequence. ...

Tags: Data Center, Webcast, PC Connection Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-12-04

In greentech as in the real world: you get big, you get enemies

The folks at Ausra are getting a higher and higher profile in the realm of solar energy. And with that comes enemies. Your CEO poses at a big opening with California's high profile governor, and next thing you know: opposition. The Ausra company headquarters...

Tags: California, Plant, Ausra, Ausra Company Headquarter, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-03