VERGE
There is a coming convergence of four technology platforms: energy, information, buildings, and transportation. We call it VERGE. This convergence is fundamentally transforming cities, companies, campuses, and communities, providing a wide range of opportunities for companies across a range of sectors. GreenBiz has launched a series of VERGE conferences around the world, in addition to a free, year-round virtual conference, focusing on the implications of convergence for business and sustainability.
- Rather than revoke employees’ rights to cloud commuting, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer should allow them to cowork instead.
- The mayor's sustainability efforts, along with EEB Hub, are creating a more resilient and competitive building stock.
- A new approach is needed to meet sustainability goals in today's matrix of buildings, cities and utilities.
- The country has been actively supporting projects in four cities since 2010.
- Emerging technologies can transform our electricity grid, but new financial mechanisms are necessary to realize the vision of a smart grid.
- Minneapolis is the latest U.S. city to require energy reporting to encourage efficiency improvements.
- Johnson Control's Clay Nesler unveils how PACE financing can help commercial property owners defer upfront costs.
- Autonomous vehicles have the potential to maximize gas mileage and connect to smart infrastructure. But will they also increase how much we use our cars?
- Massachusetts-based Atlas Box reduces energy in warehouses by 55 percent thanks to LED lighting retrofits and innovative National Grid finance program.
- More corporations are crossing the aisle to advance sustainability efforts.
- The 34-minute blackout was a potent reminder of the electrical grid's vulnerability and how energy management startups are poised to prevent future outages.
- Three U.S. schools are using the software to save money and generate new revenue streams.
- A trial with Pacific Gas & Electric tests consumer acceptance of cloud-connected thermostats and demand response programs.
- Improving energy efficiency in U.S. buildings by just 10 percent could reduce national energy costs by $20 billion. Is Obama's second term a new opportunity to create policy change?
- Truly autonomous vehicles, equipped with sensors and networked technologies, could have big implications for traffic congestion, fuel economy, parking and much more.
- Siemens and Schneider Electric among the funding parties in the latest round to help bolster energy data analytics firm BuildingIQ.
- Riggs Kubiak, CEO of Honest Buildings, sees a massive opportunity to connect buildings owners through a hyper-connected network to make for sustainable cities.
- Where electric vehicles are charged -- at home, at the workplace or in public -- plays a debatable role in the push to drive EV adoption.
- A project to unleash city agency data has sparked the creation of dozens of new apps, from maps to discover green spaces to sensors tracking bike and pedestrian traffic
- Pecan Street Project CEO Brewster McCracken talks about the Texas-based smart grid project gathering energy data from 500 homes to help unlock commercial opportunities for third-party apps.
