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- Nexsan gear now eligible for utility energy rebates
- If you're in California or in a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) coverage territory, storage vendor Nexsan reports that its SATABoy and SATABeast disk storage systems are eligible for some of the PG&E data center equipment incentives. The feature that helped it make the cut is AutoMAID, which automatically manages...
- Tags: Incentive, PG&E Corp., Disk Storage, Sales Force Management, Storage, Sales, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- 365 Main, Inc. Green Datacenters
- Miles Kelly, Vice President Strategy and Marketing for 365 Main and I had a wonderful, albeit rambling, conversation about datacenter dynamics, green computing, and orchestrating virtual servers. His company, 365 Main, Inc., creates and maintains datacenters for quite an impressive list of companies. They have datacenters in Newark, NJ; San...
- Tags: Data Center, PG&E Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- A solar cooled air-conditioning system
- A solar cooled air-conditioning systemIt occurs to me...This is a great thing, if it can prove efficient enough and cheap enough (mass production, etc.). But I wonder how the power companies really feel about it. If we all use less power, they lose revenue. Is anyone questioning...
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Air-Conditioning
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- The Green Enterprise: PG&E
- On the next installment of The Green Enterprise, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at how PG&E is working to deliver clean energy to its customers. Innovations include a unique solar installation at the company's headquarters, a hybrid-electric service truck, and emerging renewables from biogas to wave energy. Das also sits...
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Clean Technology, The Green Enterprise, Green, PG&E, Solar, San Francisco, renewable energy
- Videos 2008-03-10
- Photos: Pumping gas from manure to PG&E
- The California utility is set to move manure-generated gas through pipelines to power plants across the state. by CNET News.com
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-03-03
- Surf's up for PG&E and Finavera
- Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has extended its portfolio of renewable energy commitments into wave energy. As far as I'm aware, this represents the first commercial commitment to a wave project located in the United States. So far, most of the discernable wave energy projects have been in places like...
- Tags: Coast, Renewable Energy, PG&E Corp., Animation, Finavera, Pacific Gas & Electric, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-23
- PG&E CIO: Pat Lawicki
- In a CIO Vision Series interview, Pat Lawicki CIO of PG&E talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about energizing one of the United States' largest utilities with new technologies, such as tagging utility poles with RFID, smart meters that will quickly measure customer energy usage and intelligent grids...
- Tags: CIO, PG&E Corp., Tagging, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- PG&E CIO: Pat Lawicki
- In a CIO Vision Series interview, Pat Lawicki CIO of PG&E talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about energizing one of the United States' largest utilities with new technologies, such as tagging utility poles with RFID, smart meters that will quickly measure customer energy usage and intelligent grids...
- Tags: CIO, PG&E Corp., Tagging, Pat Lawicki
- Videos 2007-12-11
- Measuring energy usage with smarter meters
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes the company's new smart meter program, that will enable faster meter readings, and allow customers to change their behavior on a real-time basis. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Short clip: PG&E measuring energy usage with smarter meters
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes the company's new smart meter program, that will enable faster meter readings, and allow customers to change their behavior on a real-time basis.
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Pat Lawicki
- Videos 2007-12-11
- Equipping PG&E workers with PCs
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E talks about her biggest challenges within the company, such as training her service and maintenance workers with new handheld devices and computers skills. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: PC, PG&E Corp., Worker, Handhelds, Hardware, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Short clip: Equipping PG&E workers with PCs
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E talks about her biggest challenges within the company, such as training her service and maintenance workers with new handheld devices and computers skills.
- Tags: PC, PG&E Corp., Worker, Handhelds, Hardware, Pat Lawicki
- Videos 2007-12-11
- Fixing damages immediately with RFID
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes how PG&E will start tagging transformers and poles with new RFID tags so line workers can more efficiently access and fix damages when accidents occur. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Tagging, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Short clip: Fixing damages immediately with RFID
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes how PG&E will start tagging transformers and poles with new RFID tags so line workers can more efficiently access and fix damages when accidents occur.
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Tagging, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Pat Lawicki, Wireless
- Videos 2007-12-11
- PG&E CIO: Pat Lawicki - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Pat thanks for joining me. Pat Lawicki: Thank you, I’m delighted to be here. Dan Farber: Now you’ve been at PG&E in 2005, it’s a company that’s undergoing some transition as you’re putting in new systems. What is the scope of...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, PG&E Corp., Customer, Vision, Lawicki, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Another step forward for solar up-start Ausra
- It's gratifying when companies actually follow up on statements of purpose. I'm pleased to report that such is the case with Australian solar power darling Ausra and U.S. utility company Pacific Gas & Electric, which separately committed to solar development projects back during the flurry of green PR associated with...
- Tags: Turbine, PG&E Corp., Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- Whistleblower calls on Congress
- Whistleblower calls on CongressOpinionsRemember Congress is just that a small narrow minded entity focused on what abuse they can inflict on our society. They want to be remembered in history for some minute fact or legislarion.More and more they take away from us and suening is a part of the...
- Tags: Government, U.S. Congress, lead based paint
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- "Sunny day, chasing those clouds away." (Or Ausra teams up with utilities for solar thermal development)
- Another amazingly sunny, potentially thunder-y afternoon out here in Jersey. Which is probably why I noticed this particular set of energy news out of the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York this week… Three companies -- FPL Group (the parent company of Florida Power & Light,...
- Tags: Team, Turbine, PG&E Corp., Plant, FPL, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- 365 Main details SF outage problems
- 365 Main details SF outage problemsOh the cure is simple...[B]"At 1:47 p.m. on Tuesday, July 24, 365 Main's San Francisco data center was impacted by a power surge caused when transformer breakers at a local PG&E power station unexpectedly opened. PG&E has still not determined what caused the breakers to...
- Tags: Manufacturing, e-GEN, outage, solar array, PG&E Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- 365 Main details SF outage problems
- 365 Main on Wednesday detailed what went wrong during the San Francisco power outage last week and detailed what it's doing to make sure its facilities stay running in the future.The power outage on July 24 knocked various sites--including CNET, Craiglist and others--offline and raised questions about business continuity planning.Here's...
- Tags: IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Disaster Recovery, Datacenter, Business Continuity
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
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