As Japan starts rebuilding after this month’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, it must do so with a significant shortfall of electricity. With almost four percent of the country’s baseload capacity offline due to the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and problems at other generation facilities, rolling blackouts are common around Tokyo, hampering the Continue reading →
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A company founded by two former executives of power-grid operator PJM Interconnection has gotten the green light to demonstrate its smart-grid technology on the campus of Drexel University. Viridity Energy Inc., which was started last year by its president and CEO, Audrey Zibelman, and its chief technology officer, Alain P. Steven, will deploy its VPower Continue reading →
