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- Southern California Edison's new mega contract for solar megawatts
- You can add another 170,000 homes to the solar capacity that Southern California Edison hopes to support in Southern California. The utility has signed a deal with First Solar to build out two projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties with a generation capacity of 550 megawatts...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, First Solar Inc., San Bernardino, KWh, mW, Southern California Edison, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage: Let the testing begin
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star 5.0 specification officially goes into effect on July 1, so steel yourselves for a flood of activity proclaiming support for the new standard. Some of the products you'll hear about, like a bunch of notebooks, desktops and monitors from Lenovo, have actually...
- Tags: Power Management, Specification, Power Supply, KWh, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Intel still atop EPA green power list
- Noticed that Harry pointed to a new alternative energy list posted yesterday by the NRDC. Well, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just updated its quarterly reckoning of the top businesses, government agencies, universities, communities and so on that have made a substantial commitment to using alternative energy sources. ...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, KWh, Intel Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- The sun's a moving target
- Solar panels tracking sun at WCWD. Courtesy Solar Power Partners. Tracking the path of the sun seems simple enough, until you imagine moving huge solar panels so they collect the maximum rays all day long. Now, not so simple. But a...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, kW, KWh, WCWD, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Intel sits atop EPA's Green Power ranking for Fortune 500 companies
- Sorry, off to bit of a slow start this week, but I promise the pace will pick up tomorrow with the myriad briefings I've had from the likes of everyone from AMD and Intel (actually, missed that one because of a bum number but they have pretty significant news) to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, KWh, Intel Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Arctic Cooling Fusion 550R PSU (Payment Saving Unit)
- Arctic Cooling has lifted the lid on the Fusion 550R PSU, but in this case PSU stands for Payment Saving Unit. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Payment, KWh, Arctic Cooling, Operational Accounting, Desktops, Finance, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Bright idea: Verdiem offers free energy-monitoring software
- I've written a fair amount about Verdiem, which sells enterprise power management software called Surveyor that happens to be loaded up onto some of Hewlett-Packard's green-er PC models. Well, this week the company is releasing a free consumer application called Edison that can be used to manage your desktop computer's...
- Tags: power management, pc, kwh, edison, microsoft windows, desktops, data centers, microsoft windows xp service pack 2, operating systems, software, hardware, storage, data management, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Waste not. ElectraTherm turns "waste" heat into an electricity source
- A couple of months back, I reported about an IBM data center project in Switzerland that was shunting its excess heat "waste" toward warming up a public swimming pool. Along those lines, a company from Carson City, Nev., has come up with a commercial waste heat generator called the ElectraTherm...
- Tags: Electricity, KWh, ElectraTherm Green Machine, Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Some thoughts from Intel's green queen: Lorie Wigle
- Here's a stat about Intel that you might not have heard: The company is currently the largest purchaser of alternative energy: an estimated 1.3 BILLION (yes, billion with a B) kilowatt-hours in annual green power usage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's latest Top 25 list. That's roughly 46 percent...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, KWh, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
Additional Resources
- More evidence of the coming collision between home broadband and the smart grid
- Collision?Not the word I would have used.In any event, I think this is a positive and necessary direction to go. In order to manage more diversified, less dependable/consistent sources of energy, the demand side HAS TO be managed. Without it, we are just setting ourselves up for a lot of...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, collision, home broadband, grid, smart grid
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Deck the halls with LED
- Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Midwest tech firm now wind driven
- Other World Computing OWC is in McHenry County, Illinois, and now their power comes from the wind. OWC claims the title of "first 100 percent on-site wind powered technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S." It's using Vestas-made wind turbines for all its daily electricity needs. ...
- Tags: Turbine, Other World Computing, Other World Computing HQ, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- California screenin': Majority of residents oppose big-screen TV ban
- Regulate power, not sizeThey should be regulating the power consumption of TVs, not necessarily their size. Force the companies to make big screen TVs less power hungry and more efficient. Not flat out ban them.TVs should strive to be Energy Star compliant because I'm sure many of them...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, big-screen TV
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Medical reform battle may presage energy legislation
- There is one single reason those interested in greentech should pay attention to the current political donnybrook over America's medical industry and its customers: Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana). His key committee in the U.S. Senate will likely shape whatever medical legislation is voted on by the upper house...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Auto marketing wars: Nissan claims over 300 MPG
- only if this happened a long time agowe wont have depended on foreign oil so much.. but better late than never...How many of those 230/300 MPG miles?How many of those 230/300 MPG miles were spent coasting downhill, driving at 25 MPH on a test track or other unreal world, hypermiling...
- Tags: marketing, MPG, car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Will more expensive gasoline be the salvation of General Motors?
- It would HAVE to hit $20 a gallonbefore the current price of the Volt makes economic sense. But if they can shave that price down by $12k or so then it would make sense now. I'm personally routing for the latter to happen instead.At $20 a gallon the economy would...
- Tags: gallon, car, General Motors Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impactPlease, no more added bureaucracyThere will always be savings that can be extracted, but the crux is at what cost. To take a very simple example, electricity here in the Pacific NW is $0.10/KWH. Suppose tomorrow the price was suddenly $10...
- Tags: Saving Energy, McKinsey & Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Enterprise ripe for green disruption, Samsung VP says
- When it comes to adopting green technology, the enterprise is ready for a "disruptive" approach to innovation, said Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing at Samsung Semiconductor. In a presentation yesterday at the Time Warner Center in New York City, Elliott explained that the industry is...
- Tags: Green Technology, Lenovo Group Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?
- Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?Dave's is closerHowever 10 minutes and 5 minutes are a bit of an exaggeration unless you are using 5+ year old equipment. Which most workers do not. The actual number of minutes is probably half that, maybe less. However that still puts...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Shutting Down, Frugal fact, financial fiction, Frugal, computer, PC, financial, Dave
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Doors that 'revolutionize' power generation
- The energy you expend at the gym, on the nightclub dancefloor, and now, pushing a revolving door are sources for capturing electrical energy that is reusable. Fluxxlab, a design firm aiming to convert small amounts of human energy into electricity has created The Revolution Door and Powerslide, two prototype...
- Tags: Power Generation, Energy, Engineering, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
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