PRESS RELEASE: RICHARDSON, TX – Aug. 16, 2010 – Eltek Valere today announced the Trilogy DC power system, a 40A-600A, 48V high-efficiency (HE) power system with 15” shelf depth and special cable management to fit into short-depth outside plant and central office applications. Although not exclusive to solar applications, the Trilogy DC power plant does [...]

PRESS RELEASE: BEND, ORE, USA, August 9, 2010 – IdaTech plc (AIM: IDA), a global leader in the development and manufacture of clean and reliable PEM fuel cell products for the critical backup power market is pleased to announce the Phase III roll out of the latest generation hydrogen backup power fuel cell systems on [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]