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Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007 Penny Crosman |
Green Is the New Black Wall Street firms are working to reduce data center energy consumption. Google and Microsoft have been high-profile pioneers of this movement, but Wall Street may not be far behind.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Madani & Novoosel |
Getting a Grip on the Grid The findings of major electric disturbances around the world highlight the need for cross-regional grid reforms, so that the best available technology is promptly put to use, without lengthy delays arising from American legislative or regulatory processes.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2012 Joshua J. Romero |
Blackouts Illuminate India's Power Problems Weak links in the grid prove difficult to fix  |
CIO May 1, 2001 Susannah Patton |
Think Outside the Grid California's power crisis is a wake-up call. Now, to keep their websites from crashing and their IT systems from freezing, CIOs need to focus on risk planning...  |
The Motley Fool July 25, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Heat Wave Highlights Our Aging Grid When the temperature rises, we can see exactly where there's money to be made investing in the power grid.  |
Wired March 23, 2009 Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Harry Goldstein |
How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Randy H. Katz |
Tech Titans Building Boom Google, Microsoft, and other Internet giants race to build the mega data centers that will power cloud computing.  |
IndustryWeek June 20, 2012 |
Can the U.S. Revitalize its Infrastructure? Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system.  |
HBS Working Knowledge March 8, 2012 Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong?  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Jean Kumagai |
A Battery as Big as the Grid 2012 could mark the arrival of utility-scale battery storage  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation  |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2010 Michael Kanellos |
The Biggest Green Market? Seven Reasons Why It's Green IT Solar, wind and biofuels are all fantastic technologies, but to make money in the future, stick to green IT.  |
Popular Mechanics October 15, 2009 Jennifer Bogo |
Lone Star Energy: Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Grid A recent proposal to link the eastern, western and Texas grids together to create a national, energy-friendly supergrid has sparked the interest of utilities and energy insiders, but Texas doesn't want to participate.  |
IndustryWeek May 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Energy Without A Net The August 2003 blackout showed manufacturers the havoc a widespread power failure can wreak, yet nearly three years later many would face the same consequences were the lights to go out again.  |
CIO July 15, 2001 Jenna Kinghorn |
The Power to Choose New technologies keep the electricity flowing for IT...  |
Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner |
What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 William Sweet |
The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost?  |
Insurance & Technology September 5, 2007 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Insurance Carriers Reap Operational and Financial Benefits From Going Green Insurance carriers can reap operational, financial and reputational benefits by investing in energy efficiency.  |
IndustryWeek June 20, 2012 |
Diamond Wipes International Leads the Way for Distributed Generation Churning out twice the energy it consumes, the company aims to ease the strain on the state's aging electric grid.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Phillip F. Schewe |
Electric Idyll Idaho's major utility has resisted deregulation and is doing just fine. Idaho Power prides itself on the care it takes maintaining the basic physical elements of its grid, starting with the distribution transformers seen being tested and repaired.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 William Sweet |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme ConsumerPowerline, a four-year-old New York company, is showing its clients how to make money, and quite a lot of it, by not using electricity.  |
IndustryWeek April 20, 2011 |
Powering Up: The Smart Grid's Next Steps While meters have received the bulk of the attention so far, the supply side is where the smart grid will be built.  |
The Motley Fool October 29, 2009 Toby Shute |
Giant Grants for the Smart Grid These companies will be some of the biggest beneficiaries of the recent grants targeted for the solar sector.  |
Wired Kevin Kelleher |
Make Conservation Simple (and Easy) A smart grid requires smart electric meters that let households track and manage their power consumption in real time. The key is making the meters easy to use.  |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Rich Duprey |
Are We Smart Enough for the Smart Grid? Where solar, ethanol, or similar alt-energy platforms require substantial investments, the Smart Grid allows start-ups to develop tools and devices to collect and organize the data on consumption to become the 10-baggers of the next decade. Here's how to profit from this next big thing.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Jean Kumagai |
Virtual Power Plants, Real Power Five kilowatts here, a hundred kilowatts there -- with a smart grid, it all adds up  |
Bank Technology News October 2008 Dan Sharplin |
Keep the Grid Going and Reap Rewards Instead of simply putting up with higher electric bills and periodic service disruptions, bank chains have a unique opportunity to become part of the energy solution-and to profit from it at the same time.  |
Food Engineering November 1, 2008 |
Sunny location aids distribution center's sustainability efforts Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market solves California's high electrical rates while being a good environmental steward.  |
Popular Mechanics March 25, 2009 Erik Sofge |
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 John Boyd |
Japan's Digital Grid Scheme Japanese consortium aims to transform the country's centralized grid into islands of interconnected cells  |
Wired July 2001 Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else...  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Sandra Upson |
The Greening of Google In the U.S., corporate rooftops are the latest frontier in solar energy generation.  |
Popular Mechanics April 2009 Glenn Derene |
How Vulnerable is U.S. Infrastructure to a Major Cyber Attack? The next world war might not start with a bang, but with a blackout.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Prachi Patel-Predd |
Cutting the Power in Data Centers Makers of servers and their processors get together to reduce the wasted watts (and sell some new hardware, too).  |
Real Estate Portfolio Mar/Apr 2004 Matthew Bechard |
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on the 2003 Blackout and Energy Efficiency Abraham spoke with Portfolio regarding the National Energy Policy, the 2003 blackout, and how REITs can improve their energy efficiency.  |
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Feds Fear Coordinated Physical, Cyber-Attacks on Electrical Grids Electrical grids in the United States are vulnerable to both cyber-attacks and space weather, federal officials have said.  |
Popular Mechanics November 24, 2009 Chris Ladd |
How Centuries-Old Flywheels Can Improve the Electric Grid For millennia, flywheels have powered everything from potter's wheels to steam engines, storing kinetic energy in their momentum as they spin.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Peter Fairley |
Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC New developments in high-voltage DC electronics could herald an epic shift in energy delivery  |
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Report Ponders What Follows a Cyber Attack on Electric Grid Experts are convinced that a cyber attack on a U.S. electric grid that could cut off power to millions is a near certainty.  |
Home Toys February 2006 Michael Kintner-Meyer |
Grid Friendly Appliances What can home appliances do to help ensure the reliability of the electricity grid? A lot -- if they employ smart control technology.  |
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons |
Catastrophic Solar Flare Scenario Touches Off Stormy Debate Energy from solar flares can harm electrical grids on Earth, but a new study says the sun probably won't plunge the United States into the Dark Ages, as some theorists have said.  |
InternetNews September 15, 2009 |
U.S. Reviewing Cyber Threat to Power Grid Chinese researcher uses publicly available data to demonstrate how cyber terrorists could knockout entire West Coast grid with relative ease.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Peter Fairley |
Flexible AC Transmission: The FACTS Machine Flexible power electronics will make the smart grid smart  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Jean Kumagai |
The Smartest, Greenest Grid What the little Danish island of Bornholm is showing the world about the future of energy  |
Popular Mechanics May 2008 Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation?  |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Germany May Lead the Next Clean-Energy Revolution Without nuclear power, Germany will need to step up its solar and wind games.  |
CIO May 15, 2004 Christopher Lindquist |
True Grid Long the domain of scientists and engineers, grid computing is finally going mainstream. CIOs need to examine their applications to see if their businesses can benefit from grid's power and economies.  |
Wired May 2005 Daniel H. Pink |
The New Power Generation Soccer moms, taco shops, even real estate developers - mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy. Call it the dawn of the hygrid age.  |