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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

Obama visits electric car center in L.A.

I blogged earlier this week about China's plug-in car, already in mass production at a sales price of about $20K each. The Chinese electric carmaker, BYD, hopes to sell about 350,000 this year. All in China. President Obama and Southern California Edison SCE...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Barack Obama, Battery, Plug-in, Southern California Edison, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-20

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

Southern Edison gets green light, some moolah for smart metering program

The good news: Southern California Edison just got $1.63 billion in funding approved by the California Public Utilities Commission for its smart metering program, which is called Edison SmartConnect. The not so good news, if you live in California: The money will come in the form...

Tags: Southern California Edison, Edison, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Don't leave that fridge by the curb!

I saw a television out on our street a couple of mornings ago when I left for my morning job/walk, waiting for pick-up by the garbage dudes. I resisted the urge to narc on my neighbors, since it's actually illegal to place said TVs curbside in New Jersey, but it...

Tags: Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Southern California Edison: Let's go up on the roof

Southern California Edison: Let's go up on the roof...About damn time we started moving into the future! Now all we have to do is start building sustainable and energy efficient buildings and the need for massive quantities of power will diminish making solar, wind and wave not only viable but...

Tags: Southern California Edison

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Southern California Edison: Let's go up on the roof

What do you do with 65 million square feet (that's nearly two square miles) of unused rooftops on California commercial buildings? If you're Southern California Edison SCE, you figure they're as good a place as any for a massive solar cell installation. Which is precisely what the utility announced today...

Tags: California, Southern California Edison, Sales Force Management, Sales, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Southern California Edison: Why not keep your options open?

Southern California Edison: Why not keep your options open?Wellconsidering that water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and the major product of hydrogen fuel cells is water, I guess you could argue that killing the hydrogen economy is a good thing.And don't tell me that water...

Tags: environmentalist, hydrogen, global warming, Southern California Edison

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Southern California Edison: Why not keep your options open?

I will be the first to admit that I am not a rocket scientist. But I like to think that makes me more like most of the people who read this blog than the people that I interview for this blog. Controversy, of course, makes for good...

Tags: Utility, Hydrogen, Southern California Edison, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-30

A blog on light bulbs to brighten the last day of 2007

In a perfect world, I would be posting my absolutely brilliant Top Something-Or-Other Predictions for Green Tech list today. Because I know every human being LOVES lists. But, I woke up this morning in Cape May, New Jersey, and it's beautiful outside and I haven't finished...

Tags: Blog, Greenhouse Gas, Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-12-31

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

Additional Resources

Data center pilot helps Toyota reduce electricity demand by 10 percent

Simply by visualizing where hot spots and cooling inefficiencies existed and moving to address them, Toyota Motor Sales USA has been able to reduce the electricity demand requirements it puts on its local utility. During a five-year pilot program with IBM and Southern California Edison, Toyota was...

Tags: Data Center, Toyota Motor Corp., IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-13

News to know: Pixie; Google Books; Time Warner-YouTube; PayPal; iLike

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Next Palm webOS-ready phone, Eos 'Pixie', to arrive Oct. 2010 Richard Koman: Lawyer files a full-throated attack...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Canon Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Word, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Internet

Blog posts 2009-08-20

New financing alternatives for solar power installations

One very tangible reason that people have been slow to adopt solar technology, other than its questionable current efficiency posture, is that very few of individuals or businesses have excess money to plunk down on the systems. There have been all manner of financing and credit and...

Tags: Solar Energy, kW, Financing, GRID Alternatives, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Ford plugs in

Ford Motor is providing some test cars to Hydro-Quebec, a large electricity company in Canada. These are Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles which the insiders insist on initialling as PHEVs. The Ford PHEV cars are in the Escape model line. Courtesy: Ford...

Tags: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Ford Motor Co., Ford PHEV, Hydro-Québec, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Lunch in your cubicle and the ENVIRONMENT

That vending machine snack and can of Coke has environmental implications beyond the mere manufacturing and delivery systen. And now the Department of Energy DOE is going after those inefficient, old-fashioned last steps on the food chain. VENDING MACHINES! There are no solar-powered, wind-driven, or...

Tags: Environment, Machine, Department Of Energy, NRDC, Food & Beverage, Quality, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Big week for utility-driven solar tech investment

Who would have thunk that the erst-while Garden State could be such a big player in solar energy? The way the wind has been blowing literally for the past two days, it's pretty clear that wind resources are big. But the sun is far less reliable here in New Jersey....

Tags: New Jersey, Investment, Utility, mW, Solar Electric Power Association, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-14

Wind and sun--how important will they be to our energy future?

China has been doubling its wind-powered electricity generation every year for the past three. Yet many proposed wind-powered projects never happen because in this neo-capitalist company the projects won't make a profit. The Chinese government controls all project permits and they force companies into competitive bidding...

Tags: California, Nature.com, Telecom & Utilities, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-21

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