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.
- Two auto industry leaders see electric vehicles, car sharing, and alternative fuels like biofuels and compressed natural gas transforming the passenger vehicle landscape in the years to come.
- Verizon, Intel and Schneider Electric among tech leaders highlighted in an ACEEE report how "intelligent efficiency" is transforming energy use in building and transportation systems
- Microgrids are energy efficient, improve power reliability and lower energy costs.
- A legal settlement that brings more than $100 million in investment to California’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure has become a big mess, with Ecotality suing to prevent what it calls...
- Long-standing trends in the energy efficiency of computing promise an explosion in data collected from mobile sensors and controls. From the 2012 VERGE DC conference.
- The U.S. Green Building Council president talks about the promise of transparent data systems to optimize building performance and drive continuous improvement
- What will it take for utilities to shake-up long-held business models and successfully implement smart grid technologies.
- Building energy management has become a go-to solution for helping building owners and managers cut costs and improve their environmental performance. And continuous data analytics offers a new way...
- Technology news site PandoDaily recently issued a call to build a future without cars. But that's unrealistic in the short term. It's time the U.S. rediscovered carpooling, says the CEO of...
- IBM wins a contract to develop and install monitoring systems for 50 to 100 of the federal government’s highest energy-consuming buildings. Will proving the technology with Uncle Sam boost its...
- To help shoulder grid expenditure from growing electric vehicle sales, RevTech is developing a virtual power plant platform and fast response energy storage capacity.
- Winners from DOE's $100,000 cash-prize challenge include a Facebook app using trees to visualize energy use and how businesses can obtain ENERGY STAR benchmarks
- The world’s largest business software company has launched a new initiative to focus on the many challenges that urban centers face when trying to tackle sustainability issues.
- At VERGE London, speakers discussed how the convergence of energy, information, transportation and building technologies is impacting cars, buildings, cities, energy and more. Check out the Twitter...
- If we could shed more light on the power we consume, it would be easier to use less, argues Pilgrim Beart, founder of energy visualization firm AlertMe.
- CBRE's National Director of Sustainability shares what convergence means to managing 1.4 billion square feet of property for corporate and institutional clients.
- What's needed to cure the world's ills is real culture change, led by better communication about environmental issues and by the innovators Volans executive chairman John Elkington calls...
- Governments are key to fostering smarter cars, according to carmakers struggling to make progress. For now, speed bumps are keeping the market from accelerating as quickly as many would like.
- Cities already gobble up most of the world’s resources, so will increasing urbanization bring greater efficiency or simply more consumption?
- New technologies and emerging business pressures are combining to create an unprecedented era of change, according to speakers at today's VERGE conference.
