Orange, Connecticut-based, (not-California-based) Tangoe, Inc., has launched a new mobile device reuse-retire-recycle program called, Tangoe MobileRenew. According to Tangoe, the service offers much more than just the recycling of corporate mobile communication devices environmentally, but provides enterprises with a “secure, compliant, and financially beneficial means” of handling all end-of-life mobile devices.
“Organizations that have struggled to manage the retirement of an ever-expanding number of corporate devices are now able to take advantage of a program that can deliver substantial financial returns by maximizing device residual value, managing and tracking discarded devices, negotiating ‘green’ carrier contracts, as well as calculating and reporting enterprise carbon offset metrics,” Tangoe said. Read the rest »
A new technology that can save as much as 80% on Ethernet networks is now being finalised by the industry. The new standard, called Energy Efficient Ethernet or EEE – also dubbed IEEE 802.3az, brings in a feature called, “low power idle mode,” which allows network equipment to save energy when no carrying traffic.
According to Jeff Lapak, senior engineer for the University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), the current Ethernet protocol maintains a constant link between devices that allows users instant connectivity, but at the cost of high energy consumption. Read the rest »
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 energy efficient data centres, building its own renewable energy systems such as its solar installation in Mountain View, CA, and finally, buying carbon offsets to balance out the rest of its carbon. Read the rest »
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 the Verdantix report, confirming its strong commitment to sustainable development both as solutions for customers and as corporate responsibility at the Group’s level.
“Orange stands out as the telecoms operator that has been most successful in creating, marketing and delivering telecoms solutions which offer sustainability benefits to business customers,” said David Metcalfe, the Verdantix director who led the research. Read the rest »
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 calling it a ‘remarkable enterprise that has extremely long impacts’ on society. Read the rest »
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. Read the rest »
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 scorching heat wave that taxed the ability of power companies to provide enough energy to keep air conditioners humming as well as all the other electronics that are now part of every household and business.
Utility companies need a smarter way to manage their distribution grids, and consumers and businesses need better ways to understand how they are consuming electricity so they can economize their usage and reduce their costs when possible. Read the rest »
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 Hong Kong nightscape, and, of course, lights.
The topic of the day was Sympholux, the company’s new lighting control solution, which promises to reduce operating and maintenance cost of lighting in commercial environments by as much as 60%. Read the rest »
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, former chairman of Lockheed Martin; Ursula Burns, chairman and chief executive of Xerox; John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins; Chad Holliday, chairman of Bank of America and former CEO of DuPont; Jeff Immelt, chief executive of GE; and Tim Solso, chairman and chief executive of Cummins — said in its report, “A Business Plan for America’s Energy Future,” that reforming and strengthening U.S. investment in energy innovation is the most critical element to securing America’s future.
“The world faces many challenges, but none more important than taking immediate and decisive action to develop new, inexpensive clean-energy sources that avoid the negative effects of climate change,” Gates said during the launch of the report. “Low-cost clean energy is the single most important way to lift poor countries out of poverty and create more stable societies. The whole world would benefit from this, and the United States can and should lead the way. The time for action is now.” Read the rest »
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, but new developments, such as the US government-led initiative to develop what could be an international smart grid, could now bring both telecoms and power transmission under the same umbrella.
This latest report says that the EU is now planning to provide 100 million euros of funding to build a second submarine power cable between Estonia and Finland.
The new system will have the capacity to transmit some 650 megawatts of power between the two markets. The project is an initiative of Fingrid and Elering, the two grid operators in the respective countries. Read the rest »
Orange, Connecticut-based, (not-California-based) Tangoe, Inc., has launched a new mobile device reuse-retire-recycle program called, Tangoe MobileRenew. According to Tangoe, the service offers much more than just the recycling of corporate mobile communication devices environmentally, but provides enterprises with a “secure, compliant, and financially beneficial means” of handling all end-of-life mobile devices.
