Utilities and their partners can take away part of $100,000 in funds from the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries (CTSI) Organization’s Utility Technology Challenge for their visions of utility-focused energy technology. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is contributing $50,000 to the funding pool. via Utilities can win part of $100k CTSI pie – FierceEnergy.
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Sacramento will be among the first five cities in the country to benefit from President Barack Obama’s plan to invest $4 billion in energy upgrades for the nation’s commercial buildings. The deal will bring much-needed jobs to the capital region’s hard-hit construction sector, where the unemployment rate is around 30 percent. via Sacramento among first Continue reading →
Earlier this month we wrote about a leading analyst slashing smart grid forecasts and told how smart grid start-ups are being stranded as funding dries up. Grim stuff. But just because Halloween is around the corner doesn’t mean all the news has to be frightening. We came across a couple good news stories we thought Continue reading →
General Electric Co., the world’s biggest provider of power generation equipment and services, sees a rise in demand for upgrades to an aging U.S. power grid as the economy rebounds and utilities grow confident in growth. Utilities are investing ” at a stronger clip than they had in the last two years,” said Bob Gilligan, Continue reading →
Last week, Governor John Lynch joined U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and University of New Hampshire President Mark W. Huddleston in announcing the six businesses selected to participate in the second round of the Green Launching Pad. Governor Lynch spearheaded an effort to create the Green Launching Pad, a partnership between the state and Continue reading →
New Hampshire-based company Sustain received $14.4 million from GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, and other investors to continue developing its technology for energy storage using compressed air. Through the GE Ecomagination Challenge’s “Powering the Grid” program, in which SustainX is a partner, GE Energy Financial Services joins Cadent Energy Partners and prior Continue reading →
Utility meter maker Itron Inc does not expect the U.S. government to deploy any more funds to develop the so-called smart grid, Chief Executive Malcolm Unsworth said in an interview. In the last two years, the $787-billion U.S. economic stimulus package gave a crucial boost to the smart grid, which aims to make the power Continue reading →
Duke Energy and Siemens Energy will give $8.8 million to support UNC Charlotte’s new Energy Production and Infrastructure Center, the companies said today. Duke will contribute about $4.5 million and Siemens $4.3 million over several years as the center, known as EPIC, develops. The center was conceived to train engineers, adding a hoped-for lure to Continue reading →
Duke Energy and Siemens Energy announced yesterday that they will provide $4.5 million and $4.3 million respectively to the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at UNC Charlotte over a period of many years as the EPIC program develops. The center will play a critical role in training new engineers and conducting research into energy Continue reading →
A turbulent third quarter for clean technology received a timely stimulus in November with the announcement of the winners of General Electric’s ‘Ecomagination Challenge’; the first of several rounds of innovation funding intended to exploit what GE sees as a “$20 billion opportunity”. I via GE announces smart grid winners.
Four months and 4,000 entries into G.E.’s much-touted Ecomagination challenge, where it promised financial support of $200 million into new ideas for targeted categories, it has come up with a total of 17 high-tech companies that it said it will fund. via Wind turbines and high-tech smart meters win in G.E. challenge – Business – Continue reading →
Soladigm Inc. and Sentient Energy will receive funding from General Electric and VC firms including Kleiner Perkins as part of a smart-grid technology effort, according to a report Wednesday. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Milpitas-based Soladigm and Burlingame-based Sentient Energy were joined by one more Bay Area company, Scientific Conservation of San Francisco. via Continue reading →
The New Mexico counties of Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, northern Santa Fe and five American Indian communities will receive $10.6 million in stimulus grants to improve high-speed Internet infrastructure, according to the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration. …The project also will promote energy efficiency by enabling smart grid applications for regional rural Continue reading →
The check has arrived to pay for the main work phase on the largest and most comprehensive project in the nation to demonstrate how the electric grid can be used more efficiently and be made more reliable. “The work being done here makes Washington state a leader in smart grid technology,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, Continue reading →
American Transmission Co. has entered into two agreements with the United States Department of Energy, accepting investment grants totaling $12.7 million to invest in smart grid technologies to be incorporated into ATC’s transmission system. The DOE in October notified ATC that two of its applications for smart grid investment grants were selected for smart grid Continue reading →
Cleantech industry leaders worry the U.S. government is picking the country's energy winners with its hefty fiscal stimulus handouts, when the market could be better equipped for that task, a new survey shows. The U.S. Department of Energy hopes to give or loan $110 billion in stimulus funds to cleantech businesses dealing in everything from Continue reading →
Remember the Pepco guy coming to your house to read the meter? It looks like those days might be over soon. Six months after landing $168.1 million in federal stimulus funds, Pepco is now set to begin building smart grid projects in DC, Maryland and New Jersey. via Pepco Set to Start $168.1 Million in Continue reading →
Accenture, a consulting company at the forefront of many IT and infrastructure projects, outlined some of its smart grid efforts at its analyst meeting last week and CEO Bill Green shed some light on the state of the U.S. stimulus funding. In an odd twist, the U.S. government’s effort to prime the economic pump may Continue reading →
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced more than $3.2 million in federal funds for two Ohio smart grid workforce training programs. The funds, distributed through the U.S. Department of Energy, will be used to train electrical engineers and other members of the industry in the development and application of smart electrical grid technology. “Through our Continue reading →
Michigan will receive just more than $5 million for two programs to train workers for jobs in electric utilities, the Obama administration said today. The administration will provide $4.4 million to the state’s Electric Power Workforce Training Strategy, which aims to train 588 workers for electric sector jobs. Northern Michigan University will get $670,000 for Continue reading →
