Google says it has purchased 114 megawatt of wind power for the next 20 years from NextEra Energy Resources’ Story County II facility in Story and Hardin counties in Iowa in the US.
According to Google, this is part its plan to voluntarily become carbon neutral in 2007, which consists of three main initiatives – building [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Orange, through Orange Business Services – its division for enterprise customers, confirms its leadership in the sustainable telecoms market, according to the 2010 ground-breaking report published by Verdantix, an independent analyst firm that provides commercial analysis of climate change, sustainability and energy issues. Orange already lead the market in the 2009 issue of [...]
I came across this site with a video of Vint Cerf talking about smart grids at ConnectivityWeek.
Part 1
The presentation by Cerf is entertaining and full of anecdotes about the early days of the Internet. He obviously has put some thought into smart grids, describing it as a ‘massive transformation’ and ‘such a complex system’, and [...]
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solution, or ATIS, says it will soon announce a standard methodology for measuring the efficiency of wireless base stations.
The news comes just weeks after ETSI, or the Europe Telecommunications Standards Institute, announced a similar standard of measurement called, Energy Efficiency of Wireless Access Networks.
By Mark Madden
Regional vice president, Energy Markets, Alcatel-Lucent
Today’s power industry is under pressure to meet increasing demands for energy while minimizing the need to build fossil-fueled fired power plants in order to reduce environmental impact. Just last week a large portion of the U.S., in particular the heavily populated Northeast, was hit by a [...]
It’s not very often that I visit an office with a fully fitted hotel room in the back, but that’s the case when I venture to speak to Schneider Electric. Inside the company’s Hong Kong office, is a completely furnished hotel room, complete with TV, bed, window curtains, radio, even a back-lit scene of the [...]
A group representing some of America’s top business leaders is calling for the U.S. government to develop a national energy strategy, including a more than tripling of the current investment level on R&D into clean energy.
The American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC), whose members include Bill Gates, chairman and former chief executive of Microsoft; Norm Augustine, [...]
As we noted a while back, the energy industry is becoming a lot like the telecoms industry.
From what was traditionally national grids, the energy sector is going increasingly cross border. The notion is not new since subsea power transmission cables have been in place to deliver energy from power rich markets to power starved countries, [...]
The recent heatwave that hit New York City was mitigated by some smart technologies from the utility company, Con Edison.
According to various reports, such as this one, the utility was able to avoid a potential brown or black out because it was able to control the consumption of electricity from some 20,000 homes and businesses. [...]
The Obama administration is reportedly readying the announcement of an international smart grid effort that will help establish international standards for smart electricity networks.
The International Smart Grid Action Network, or ISGAN, will promote standardisation of smart grid technologies through voluntary government participation, according to various reports such as this blog post. International cooperation on smart [...]
Recent tweets
Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]