All Posts Tagged With: "smart grid"

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New Energy Entrepreneurs Vie for NREL Growth Forum Spot

Every aspect of new energy technology was covered from carbon sequestration to ground breaking home geothermal systems and next level wind analytics. In the end the winning presentations belonged to Algal Scientific Corporation, Ener-G-Rotors Inc, and Energy Materials Corporation.

31Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How Big Biz Will Drive Cleantech

Recognizing that I get into trouble for pitching the role of the world’s major corporations in driving cleantech innovation and - supposedly - ignoring the role of fledgling companies, let me show you how it’s working.

22Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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U.S. Business Leaders Call for Revolution in Energy Technology Innovation

The key, they say, is reforming and strengthening U.S. investment in energy innovation — the most critical element to securing America’s future. This isn’t just another clean energy advocacy group. Members range from Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Chad Holliday, former CEO of DuPont, to GE’s Jeff Immelt and Lockheed Martin’s former chair, Norm Augustine.

1Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Did the DOE Bet Wrong on Smart Grid?

Consider Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder. A couple years ago the utility began deploying a wide variety of smart grid technologies similar to those funded by ARRA to the city’s 50,000 residents. Now the project costs have ballooned almost three times from an initial estimate of $15 million to more than $40 million, and Xcel has had to raise customer rates to help fund the project.

24Jun2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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SmartRegs Gets Its Legs; Takes Some Heat

Boulder City Council began its first reading of the much-discussed SmartRegs proposal at their meeting on May 18.
In witness of an over-capacity meeting hall, Mayor Susan Osborne said it was, “the most important issue we’ll tackle this year, and the most complex.”

21May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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HB 10:1001 — Colorado’s
“Retail Distributed Energy” Game Changer

This is a big step! It means that no longer will our state’s investor-owned utilities be focused on 250-plus MW wind faclities to meet their RES requirements. They will of necessity be required to encourage retail distributed generation by the people who are consuming it, not just huge generation companies.

14Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

29Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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