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 [...]

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 [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Energy Management is Critical Component of ReVISION House Vegas Boston, MA and Las Vegas, NV – (June 29, 2010) Powerhouse Dynamics, a home energy management company, verified today that the ReVISION House in Las Vegas, NV is a net-zero energy home. Powerhouse’s eMonitor has been tracking the home’s circuit and appliance-level energy usage, [...]

Chevron has launched one of the world’s largest trials of solar panel technologies, dubbed Project Brightfield, in a bid to identify the most efficiency method of transforming the sun’s energy into electricity. Chevron is now installing 7,700 solar panels from 7 vendors on 18 acres of land in California – a former Chevron refinery – [...]

AT&T and Superior Communications have launched a new phone charger that promises to eliminate the phantom, or vampire, energy draw, from millions of chargers left plugged in. The AT&T ZERO charger works by automatically sensing when a mobile phone is not plugged up to the charger and cutting the power supply from the wall socket. [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks is seeking applications and partnerships with the energy sector, claiming a similarity with its core business in the telecoms industry. The company says that it will use its existing portfolio, combined with new partnerships to address opportunities in the energy sector. NSN adds that demand for renewable energy, intelligent power grids and [...]

There are plenty of things that the telecoms industry can do to limit its energy consumption – hence the related impact on the environment, but until this week there has so far been no systematic approach to energy for the telecoms network that covers all the different scenarios. Sure, each new generation of hardware will [...]

Power technology specialist Chloride is claiming a major breakthrough in efficiency with its Trinergy UPS solution. Chloride CEO, Tim Cobbold told Green Telecom Live that Trinergy now introduces a new modular architecture, so customers can deploy what they need today and scale up when they grow, as well as new capabilities that turn on the [...]

A new partnership between APC by Schneider Electric and Imprint Enterprises, a network and data center solutions provider, will link up directly with Colorado and Minnesota power utility Xcel Energy, to provide pre-approved data centre energy efficiency assessments for businesses. Under the scope of the partnership, APC and Imprint will now offer their assessment services [...]

Smart meter vendor, Itron, and utility communications specialist, Ambient Corporations, have signed a MoU to jointly market a suite of smart grid solutions for utility customers. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will closely integrate Itron’s smart metering application, OpenWay, with Ambient Smart Grid communications technology to connect legacy equipment as well [...]