The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreBetter Place, the startup that’s championing battery switching rather than fast charging as the solution to electric vehicle range anxiety, has just…
Read MoreU.S. startup Nuvve is setting its sights on the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) market with a 30-car project in Denmark that it says will sell plug-in car battery power to help stabilize the grid. Can the model scale?…
Read MoreVehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology — using parked electric vehicles (EVs) as grid batteries — is a no-brainer. Many cars are parked most of…
Read MoreMonday brings news of some big money for home security automation with energy management on the side. IControl, a startup backed by…
Read MoreLet’s dedicate this Friday to singing the praises of solar power, the new industrial employment engine of the world’s major economies. The…
Read MoreThe U.S. economy may be sputtering at the edge of a double-dip recession, but that hasn’t stopped the solar photovoltaic industry from…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s move to create a global cloud-based management platform for plug-in vehicle chargers seems to be moving forward in Japan, where its…
Read MoreLast week saw the World Trade Organization decide that China had to stop subsidizing its domestic wind power industry, handing a green…
Read MoreWho needs smart meters when you've got broadband? Two announcements last week — EcoFactor's energy-saving data and Comcast's Xfinity Home Security launch — raise that question. If the broadband channel to home energy takes off, it could leave smart meter–dependent home energy startups in the dust.…
Read MoreWho needs smart meters when you’ve got broadband? Last week saw two announcements that lay out the potential for delivering deep energy management capability via existing home broadband market channels, all while smart meters are still struggling to get up and running. If the broadband channel to home energy takes off — a very big if, to be sure — that could leave smart meter-dependent home energy startups in the dust…
Read MoreIf anyone was wondering what the Obama Administration wanted to see from utilities and companies building the country’s smart grid, here’s a…
Read MoreThis week has seen a host of new projects, partnerships and reports come out making clear how big a role natural gas…
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