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In 2009 a story made headlines that is still being brought up today: British newspaper The Sunday Times claimed that a Google search generated large amounts of greenhouse gases; the same amount of carbon as boiling a kettle of water for tea. Even though later Google later was able to prove that in fact most [...]
With DIREC 2010 in India and the Cancun Summit, two major events concerning renewable energy are lined up and again everyone talks about the need to increase the share of clean energy in our total energy consumption. Whilst most experts see the greatest potential for photovoltaic power, up to date wind turbines still have the [...]
What a great goal we have: reducing our emissions, and for some of us, saving money at the same time. Energy efficiency is growing more important and getting more attention from all sides. But wouldn’t it all be easier if it were done automatically? The concept called Home Energy (or Power) Management System (HEMS) attempts [...]
How to spend more than $4 billion stimulus funds on the smart grid
12 May 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
In April 2009 the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to issue a competitive Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications for grants for the Smart Grid Investment Grant Program (SGIG). The Smart Grid Investment Grant Program was originally authorized by Section 1306 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and later [...]
A few days ago, google inveted to a “Efficient Data Center Summit” where leaders of the IT industry discussed best practices for data center efficiency. It was the first time, that google showed videos of their data centers and presented their ways to create the “world’s most efficienct data centers”. But (as you can imagine) [...]
According to Reuters Google is shortly to roll out free software which allows consumers to track their home electricity use and improve energy efficiency in a bid to help mitigate global warming. Dan Reicher, Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Google, is currently working with a number of major utilities companies in the United [...]
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