Data centers use up to 2.2 percent of the country’s electricity, and their hunger for power is only expected to grow in the coming years. Can these massive burdens on the power grid transform themselves into grid assets? Data center power management software startup Power Assure is going to try it out, in tandem with Continue reading →
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Frost & Sullivan released its end-user survey, Smart Grid Market – A Customer Perspective on Demand Response, which examines the motivations and probability of residential customers adopting demand response programs. Demand response is defined as a load power management program offered and controlled by either electric utilities or curtailment service providers. Demand response is considered Continue reading →
mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:XDSL) has accepted an invitation to participate on the Thought Leadership Panel at the Smart Grid Implementation Summit on August 19 in Washington, D.C. at 8:15 AM. mPhase will use this opportunity to introduce the benefits and applications of the Smart NanoBattery as it relates to smart grid technology. In particular, extending Continue reading →
South Plainfield-based Petra Solar Inc. is the first business to be awarded funding under the state’s new Clean Energy Manufacturing Fund. The fund, specifically designed to support companies looking to site or materially expand a renewable energy or energy-efficient product manufacturing facility in New Jersey, is designed to attempt to bolster the state’s role in Continue reading →
Nearly four years ago, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates told me the software giant had no interest in playing a direct role in the development of “smart-grid” technologies. In fact, he seemed rather uninformed about its potential. That, of course, was before the U.S. Department of Energy set aside nearly $4 billion (U.S.) to throw Continue reading →
