All Posts Tagged With: "smart grid"
GridPoint and SRE Sign Acquisition Agreement
Arlington, VA-based GridPoint, Inc. and Standard Renewable Energy (SRE) have announced that the companies have entered into an agreement for GridPoint to acquire SRE. GridPoint expects to close the transaction in the first quarter of 2010, subject to closing conditions.
2Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Is the Sustainability Revolution Sustainable?
It’s July 20, 1789. Smith and Jones, two English businessmen, are walking down the street. Smith turns to Jones and says, “How about this Industrial Revolution we’re having?” Sounds implausible? Of course it does. Because the industrial revolution was not really a revolution.
1Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Front Range Corridor Becoming Smart Grid Power Player –
Latest News: Power Tagging Lands Grant for eGrid
Said the Governor: “Power Tagging further extends the Colorado smart grid ecosystem with NIST, NREL and the most progressive green tech and smart grid projects in the country. Our state is creating the technologies that will allow all utilities to deliver power more reliably and affordably.”
24Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Smart Grid Funding: A Step, Not a Solution
Like early-childhood education, smart grids are a cause that nobody doesn’t like. But there are many related and necessary developments that must happen before the technology can fulfill its promise to reduce energy demand and lower consumers’ power bills. For one thing, displaying a home’s energy usage doesn’t mean much unless the residents are willing to act on that information.
9Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Power Lines– Smart Grid Funding, Program and Tech Updates
>> Fed Funding for Smart Grid Goes to CO Companies
>> Tendril Networks Announces Tech Partnership
>> SmartGridCity™ Gets Toyota Plug-In Vehicles
>> Smart Meters Could Bring Big Savings
Smart Grid’s Potential Attracts Heavy-Hitters –
Development of Standards Remains Key
I challenge you to think of any part of the smart grid that GE does NOT offer –maybe software. Luke’s speech set the theme - this isn’t the Internet. This is a land of Industrial Giants, and (unlike IBM’s Internet ennui of the early 1990s) these giants are not ceding the smart grid territory to anyone.
5Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Debut of Counselor’s Corner –
Vol. #1–The Smart Grid: What’s the Big Deal?
Colorado Energy News is delighted to welcome Peter Edwards to our editorial team. A technology and finance attorney with the Denver firm, Fairfield and Woods, Peter will be presenting new items of interest for business and legal professionals in the energy world of the future, particularly in Colorado.
12Sep2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Cleantech VC Investment Jumps in Q2 —
Colorado Firms in Top 5 of New Energy Deals
Boulder-based Tendril, a manufacture of smart grid software, received $30 million in funding; and alternative fuels producer, Gevo in Englewood, was the recipient of $40 million. The deals put both start-ups in the top five reported venture-capital funding transactions nationwide for clean energy in the second quarter.
31Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Pike Research– Renewables DG Market to Exceed $60 Billion within Five Years
The Boulder-based market research firm says global system revenues for sub-utility scale Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG) rose 76% in 2007 and 2008 to an estimated $29.9 billion by the end of last year.
19Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008
Despite growing economic uncertainty over the last year, three major clean-energy sectors — solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, and biofuels — kept up a blistering growth rate, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2009 report. By 2018, these sectors are forecast to have revenues of $325.1 billion.
11Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Smart Grid Politics: Opening Statement at D.C. Hearing
“Smart Grid is not the build out of miles and miles of high voltage transmission lines. Instead, what we’re really talking about is a potential transformation in how we use and deliver electricity.”
5Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Staying Ahead of the Smart Grid Curve with Power Monitoring
PowerView enables homeowner and business customers to see their energy profile and affect change now, regardless of where they live, what utility they are served by, or if that utility has implemented smart meters.
19Feb2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Poudre Valley REA Inks $4.5 Million Smart Grid Contract
The system includes automated energy monitoring and control capabilities to help achieve greater efficiency and detection of surges and interruptions in the power supply. When fully installed, it will enable real-time grid diagnostics across the 5,760 square mile PVREA service area.
19Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Digital Technology and Interoperability Key to Smarter Grid
Making the shift to modern digital technology will be a major endeavor. “Interoperability is really the big part of the focus for researchers and engineers,” says NREL’s Dick DeBlasio.
16Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The key point is their is a 90 yeear supply supply gas in the lower 48 ALONE.
This doesn't take ...
Cogeo - thanks for the comprehensive comment. You're prolific, indeed; however, overall, we just don't see the doomsday scenario for ...
Projections of reserves and years of consumption are historically wrong. Reserve estimations are more important in pumping up stock ...
Thanks Ann. I've heard that 100 year claim too, but at current consumption rates. I guess I could ...