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Business
In Oklahoma, a Utility's Smart Grid Leads the Way
An effective smart-grid infrastructure would mean less consumption, lower bills, fewer power plants and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment
Utilities Can't Convince Us to Save Energy—Can Facebook?
A new Facebook app will allow users to monitor, share, and compare information about their energy use.
Business
Lean and Clean: How One Company Makes Factories Greener and More Competitive
One company has figured out how to make energy more competitive, and more sustainable.
Business
GOODCo Finalists: For a Cleaner Future, Three Firms Build a Smarter Grid
These three GOOD Company finalists are making our electrical infrastructure smarter.
Environment
Why It's Time for You to Demand a Smart Meter
Developing a smart grid would save consumers money and conserve energy. But utility companies are dragging their feet.
Environment
The Military-Approved Portable Clean Energy Kit
Whatever you make of the military, it's pushing innovation in clean energy, and this new Mobile Renewable Power Station is leading the way.
Environment
The Power of the Smart Grid
If implemented by 2030, a smart grid could have incredible effects on our energy use and carbon emissions.
Technology
Smart Grid Security: Keeping Hackers Out of Your Power Meter
The smart grid has the potential to revolutionize how we use electricity. But there's a catch: We need to make it invulnerable to hackers.
Environment
How to Hook Up Your Home to the Smart Grid Today
This is your house on the smart grid. What the future of home appliances will look like when we're managing our electricity better.
Technology
Track Your Local Smart Grid Projects
If you’ve heard the term "smart grid" but aren’t sure what it means or how it pertains to you, a new website will help bring you up to speed on...
Culture
Anatomy of a "Smart" Word
Spiders, mobs, and power: An intelligent word trend takes off. I’ve seldom been told I dress smartly, but I have always felt like a smart guy....
News
Europe Could Use 100 Percent Renewable Electricity by 2050
According to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Europe and North Africa could get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources...
Environment
Could Our Grid Handle 1 Million New Plug-in Cars?
If we start switching over to plug-in electric vehicles, that will represent a huge change in our use of electricity, and there are questions...
Technology
Keeping Energy Use Down with the Joneses
A few utility companies have been trying pilot programs that show customers how their energy use compares with their that of their neighbors. It...
Technology
You Want Electric Cars? You Can't Handle Electric Cars
The New York Times examines what some cities-most of them in the San Francisco Bay Area-are doing to prepare for this new crop of plug-in cars,...
Environment
Who Uses the Most Energy per Capita?
Yep, you're absolutely right! It's Qatar! The Economist tells us what should stand out here: ...what should stand out is that most of the...
Environment
How Much Would a "Smart Grid" Reduce Carbon?
There's been lots of talk about building a "smart grid"-a new energy transmission infrastructure that would cut down on wasted energy, reduce...
The Community Board
Empower The People: Energy Production For Everyone
Fast Company magazine covers the latest best and "next" practices in the business world. In their July 2009 article "Beyond The Grid," Pulitzer...
