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Quantum computing and other factors require an overhaul of our energy systems.
by Cedrik Neike
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From smaller, more powerful solar panels to new momentum for distributed power sources, accelerating nanotechnology R&D holds serious promise for commercial energy.
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At the ARPA-E Summit, technologists and energy users made the case for innovation that makes the energy grid look like an "antiquated backup."
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A new report reveals that venture capital investments in clean tech rose quarter to quarter throughout 2013.<o p=''></o>
by James Murray
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Our new feature recaps some the biggest sustainability news, and looks at new corporate commitments, a vegan NASCAR, and more.
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IBM is partnering with Switzerland's largest retailer Migros, a local utility and the country's grid operator to test how companies can manage industrial power demand to optimize their use of renewable energy.
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Blackstone acquisition of Vivint for $2B shows enormous potential big players are seeing in field.
by Aaron Tilley
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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 a monopoly by its rival NRG. Who will win -- and who stands to lose?
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The director of the forward-looking utility's energy- and cost-savings programs talks about the smart grid, demand response and how Big Data is creating the utility of the future.
by Don Reed
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Alex Laskey, the founder and president of Opower, shares how his company has created a nation full of happy, engaged and efficient customers -- as well as happy utilities that are saving money and changing their image from evil behemoths to energy managers.
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The Swiss firm has made its first acquisition since it was purchased by Toshiba, snapping up the remaining stake in the smart-grid software company -- and further tightening the market for smart grid technologies.
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New research from a smart grid industry group finds that the time for pilot projects is over, and lays out a checklist of best practices for utilities to engage their customers prior to and during smart meter rollouts.
by Derek Top
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A new report from BSR and CTIA, the wireless industry lobbying group, touts the benefits of wireless technologies for saving billions of dollars on costs and emissions in the coming years, particularly in logistics, farming and smart grids.
by Derek Top
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General Electric and Inovateus Solar are working together to offer solar-powered carports equipped with charging stations for electric cars -- a concept that enables large-scale EV charging in commercial and corporate parking lots without a huge draw on the grid.
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This year's Meeting of the Minds conference, kicking off today in Boulder, brings together industry, nonprofit and governmental leaders for a no-holds-barred look at how well smart technologies are progressing.
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Increasing capacity per dollar in computer technology has driven exponential growth for 50 years. With a similar organizing principle, the same could happen in the energy industry.
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The two top-tier environmentalists, who have taken very different paths to addressing our environmental woes, sat down last week to talk about the growth of renewables, the need to break the power of the fossil fuel industries, and more.
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The EU's attempt to remedy the deadlock over extending the Kyoto Protocol, the Friends of the Earth's call for taking green scissors to the U.S. budget and a new report on smart grid cyber security are in the news today.
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Later this month, environmental activists will launch the broadest climate protest in history, against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. There are plenty of compelling reasons why cleantech and energy companies should get on board.
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Conservatives in the current Congress are pushing hard against environmental laws -- and the fact that they're gaining ground is a testament as much to hard-liners in one party as it is to a failure to send compelling messages on climate change.
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Charging stations for electric vehicles are expected to sprout up soon at 800 Walgreens stores.
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General Electric's second entry in the race for EV charger marketshare is scheduled to hit the shelves of five Lowe's stores in California next month, with a broader rollout to 60 of the chain's retail sites in September.
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Why solar companies don't want to be bought up, the economic dangers of relying on lithium in electric vehicles, and what the end of Google's PowerMeter means in the U.K. (not much) are what we're reading this morning.
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Blaming "Washington" for America's failing clean-energy leadership is easy, but the fact is much of the nation’s energy policy happens at the state level. Two new reports shine a light on how the states are doing.
by Joel Makower