Google has called it quits on its high profile RE>C, or Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, initiative, citing engineering challenges and the fact that the renewable energy sector has made enough progress that it can now leave it to others to further research in the area.
“We’ve reached a point in our engineering projects where we’re [...]
Google announced this week it will set up a company with a partner and offer solar power to residential customers. As part of the plan, Google will set up a US$75 million fund with San Francisco firm, Clean Power Finance, which solar power integrators will be able to tap into to finance potential customer purchases.
Basically, [...]
In the same week Google revealed the environmental profile of its Gmail service, the search engine giant also released details of its overall corporate environmental performance the year 2010.
According to Google, it recorded a total of 1,457,982 metric tons of CO2 equivalent for the year 2010. This includes 11,126 metric tons of CO2e for direct [...]
Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsubishi Electric, and Mitsubishi Corp., is set to trial a new energy storage system that will use electric vehicles as battery banks when they are parked.
The project, dubbed “V2X,” will be rolled out in a trial deployment at the parking facility of Mitsubishi Motors’ Nagoya plant by March 2012, and will use the [...]
A new company in Raleigh, North Carolina, has unveiled the novel idea of creating an energy storage network that will help utilities load balance their generation requirements.
Green Charge Networks’ new GreenStation product is an energy storage and management device that is designed to be deployed in public and commercial facilities such as grocery stores and [...]
Like every other market segment, China has the potential to become the biggest smart meter market in the world.
According to a report in the China Daily, the State Grid Corp of China now has an addressable market of 300 million potential smart meter users, worth some 50 billion yuan, or roughly US$7.7 billion. In comparison, [...]
Japan’s data centres won’t be impacted by the government’s mandate for all corporations to reduce their power consumption by 15% starting this month.
According to a report from Seeking Alpha, data centres will be exempt from the power conservations restrictions, that will be applied across corporations operating in the country. The policy puts data centres in [...]
Russia is reportedly prepared to build a subsea cable that will pipe electricity to power-stricken Japan following the devastating earthquake that damaged a major nuclear power plant in Fukushima and caused widespread panic in the region.
According to the voice of Russia report, the project to link the Russian island of Sakhalin to Hokkaido was unveiled [...]
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 [...]