Catalyst, a highly-regarded Australian weekly science program, has produced an excellent episode describing in a very accessible yet in-depth manner the technology that is enabling single-family homes and multi-family communities to vastly reduce their reliance on the electrical grid through the use of solar panels, battery storage, and energy management systems. In […]
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At the United Nations-hosted Investor Summit on Climate Risk this week Mike Bloomberg, Al Gore, and others urged businesses and philanthropists to invest more in renewable energy resources. The conference, organized by the nonprofit sustainable advocacy organization Ceres, is designed to sustain the momentum from Paris and catalyze further actions that investors,
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This week in the Wall Street Journal, Jack Nicas writes about admission tickets to the Indianapolis Zoo ranging in price from $8 to $30 per person based on advance sales and expected demand. Like airlines and hotels, more and more businesses are varying their prices by the day, hour, or
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week released a staff report on demand response and advanced metering. According to the report: Approximately 38 percent of all meters in the US contain advanced capabilities (a sizable increase over the <5 percent penetration in 2007), with Texas leading the way at nearly
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https://youtu.be/BykRmLZVMUE General Electric today launched a billion-dollar startup, called Current by GE, and tasked it with applying the company’s vast resources in new ways to add value by connecting the physical and digital worlds. Using LED lighting as the primary physical platform, in conjunction with GE’s Predix data analytics service,
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