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Utility to Drive Smart Grid Advances Drive a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and you'll get some idea of how we're driving our energy sector today.   |
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June 2009
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Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
Food Engineering
November 4, 2007
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Sustaining Your Energy Action Plan An energy action plan should start with a thorough analysis of the manufacturing facilities WAGES, that is, the five utilities water, air, gas, electricity and steam. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Maybe the Smart Grid Is Dumb Regulators are forcing utilities that invested in the technology to wear a dunce cap. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2007
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Process, Unplugged An increased potential for savings is driving a growth market in wireless systems in the field of process manufacturing. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007 |
Letters To The Editor For February 2007 Fair play in energy? Fair politics in Western New York? |
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. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
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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. |
IndustryWeek
December 10, 2003
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Bookshelf -- An Optimistic Outlook A new book by Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI provides a primarily upbeat assessment of U.S. manufacturing's future and recommends reforms. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
The Price of Power Evaluating your energy procurement options can help save money and control operating costs. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Energy: New Plants, Old Problems Hundreds of new power plants are in the works in the United States, but they won't make energy cheaper or more reliable for manufacturers or consumers. |
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. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Steve Nguyen |
The Future of Home Automation In the end, the infrastructure that a service provider creates to reach the shell of a home will be the catalyst for manufacturers, service companies and others to create the automated products that may one day make the home automation market what we always thought it could be. |
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. |
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 |
IndustryWeek
January 16, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Survey Encourages Optimism On road to recovery, new manufacturing orders in 2002 could exceed 2001's... |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
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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 |
PHONE+
January 26, 2010
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Energy Regulation: Watts Up With That? As of today, 13 states and the District of Columbia have great variance in methodologies and regulations among them. |
Bank Technology News
October 2008
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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. |
IndustryWeek
August 17, 2011 |
Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy in Real Time Mobile technologies are helping manufacturers innovate and manage today's challenges while setting the stage for ongoing improvements in customer engagement, profitability and cost efficiency in the years to come. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
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Google Swoops on the Smart Grid Fresh off of its investment in next-generation geothermal power, Google makes another notable cleantech move, announcing it's pairing up with General Electric to bring our electric grid into the 21st century. |
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... |
Popular Mechanics
March 25, 2009
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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. |
InternetNews
November 14, 2006
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Microsoft, Rivals Team on Interop Effort Microsoft has established the Interop Vendor Alliance, a group of software and hardware vendors designed to promote interoperability between hardware and software systems. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
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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? |
InternetNews
March 24, 2010 |
IBM Smart Grid Push Aims for Power Efficiency In a team-up with eMeter, IBM plans to help public utilities improve their power usage and efficiency. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2006 |
Cash Flow Is King Manufacturers pay little attention to long-term interest rates when deciding to invest. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Standardizing Machine Communication An initiative targeting machine tool interoperability promises to revolutionize manufacturing. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2004
Doug Bartholomew |
The Juice Flows Again Survey shows IT spending by manufacturing companies will expand this year as prices fall, and companies dust off shelved plans. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009 |
The Changing Face of Automation Factory automation grows smarter, leaner and finds a new market to serve. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
New Interoperability for Microsoft? As Microsoft aims for compatibility with various identity management technologies, is it really part of the "Interoperability Principles" initiative? |
InternetNews
September 8, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
EU Puts Money on Grid Big euro bucks will support efforts that put the power of grid computing into the real world. |
IndustryWeek
April 10, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Manufacturing Business Indicator Moves Into Growth Territory Latest data suggest rebounding economy, but manufacturing recovery may not be uniformly strong, reports Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI... |
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. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2005
Doug Bartholomew |
Forever Connected The Internet may be a recent tool within manufacturing, but it is undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most influential. Here's a quick tally of just a few of the ways the Internet has changed manufacturing. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Paul Shread |
Grid Meets P2P A Grid Forum paper looks at ways to make grid computing and peer-to-peer applications work together. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2007 |
Global automation infrastructure needed A new study suggests there is a paradigm shift in the design, selection and deployment of process automation systems -- from automation software to plant floor control hardware, to the use of more international automation standards and practices. |
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. |
Food Engineering
October 1, 2007
Joyce Fassl |
Sustainability movement surges on If your company doesn't have a director of sustainability or environmental affairs, you better get one soon. |
Food Engineering
November 1, 2005
Joyce Fassl |
Look back to see forward As they did in 1995, today's processors see the need for greater automation and feel the push from consumers. However, a few things have changed the way we do business. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Balancing Your Automation Standards Best practices in technology deployment and human relations distinguish food manufacturing's masters of automation. |
AFP eWire
August 9, 2004 |
BBB to Expand Charity Evaluation Program The Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance, a charity monitoring group based in Arlington, Va., has developed the Online Charity Reporting and Evaluation System, which will allow the organization to evaluate more nonprofits every year. |
Insurance & Technology
November 12, 2007
Falk Reiker |
SAP's Falk Reiker Discusses Real-Time Operability Change It will not be an overnight transformation. Banks will start with a phased approach that first simplifies the processes they currently have in place to reduce technology. |
IndustryWeek
February 16, 2011 |
Manufacturing 2.0 -- Building a Lean, Mean Profitable Machine Recovery brings more focus on risk-taking, talent management and global markets. |
