Hawaii ranks tenth out of all the states when it comes to clean tech, according to the Christian Science Monitor. The states were ranked by Clean Edge, a research firm based in San Francisco and Portland. Criteria included: renewable energy generation, the number of alternative fuel vehicles on the road, “green” buildings, smart-meters and clean Continue reading →
Just four cities – San Jose, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston – report liking the plug-in vehicles they’ve bought and look forward to buying more over time. Everyone else in America, not so much. So says a new study from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, who cast major doubts on the Continue reading →
Highlighting the utility industry’s growing use of Internet-based data management tools to develop modern grid networks, GE (NYSE: GE) Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt today cited GE’s Grid IQ™ “Solutions as a Service” (SaaS) offering as one of nine industrial service technologies that are creating more modern, interconnected businessesin a 21st century economy, during an Continue reading →
The USA could learn a number of valuable lessons from Sweden about energy policy. The Swedish Trade delegation recently sponsored a Smart Grid roundtable in San Francisco with Anna-Karin Hatt, Minister for Information Technology and Energy in the government of Sweden’s Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications. Several Silicon Valley Smart Grid organizations, including resources Continue reading →
Monday night as I was camped out in front of my Twitter feed — safe and dry in San Francisco — friends and family in New York started tweeting about power failures all over lower Manhattan. Their cell phones, running on batteries and tapping into their carrier’s high speed wireless networks — many that are Continue reading →
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and Clasma Events are hosting the first GridSec Summit in San Francisco, CA, October 22-24, to address the critical issues around cyber security and risk management for the nation’s electrical infrastructure. This summit will bring together grid-security leaders for in-depth dialogue on the threats, opportunities, drivers and challenges of Smart Continue reading →
Intel Labs held an annual showcase in San Francisco on Tuesday and it showed off how it’s researching ways to use data to help curb energy consumption in residential homes, in offices, on factory floors and across smart cities. The overall take away: to make the world more energy efficient we need big data to Continue reading →
For the second consecutive year, PG&E is teaming with the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects on a $25,000 competition for zero net energy building designs. Zero net energy buildings produce as much clean energy as they use in a year through energy efficiency and on-site, renewable energy production that’s tied to Continue reading →
Young, early-stage green-focused startups are a rare breed these days. The demo day on Wednesday in downtown San Francisco for the green digital-focused accelerator Greenstart (which I called the Y-Combinator for greentech a year ago when they launched) was one of the first times in a long time that I’ve seen a grouping of new Continue reading →
I found myself stumbling across a lot of discussion about solar energy the past few days. There is both good news and bad news. San Francisco where I live is host to the U.S. Solar Market Insight conference which is officially sold out so conference organizer GTM Research has teased those of us not attending Continue reading →
Some bad news for the demand response and smart grid industries: most commercial building owners and operators don’t know you exist. Connecting to the smart grid and demand response isn’t even on the radar for most commercial building owners and managers, according to a Tuesday morning discussion at the Smart Energy International conference in San Continue reading →
