Insights from our Editorial Team
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Jan 29, 2013 |
We’re all concerned about privacy. If we weren’t, there would be no market for window blinds and no need to have special settings on Facebook to keep out frenemies. Those concerns range from the personally creepy to the publicly insecure and involve both information we willingly share and information companies can gather without our direct knowledge.
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Jan 28, 2013 |
Part of the Obama administration’s energy agenda has been rejected by a federal court. Appellate judges have tossed aside a quota mandating that oil refiners supplement their product with biofuels made from woody chips, switch grass and municipal waste, called cellulosic ethanol.
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Jan 27, 2013 |
The U.S. Government Accountability Office is saying in a just-released analysis that government officials in charge of inspecting pipeline safety should be required to provide the necessary data so that monitors can help them improve their response times and the subsequent results. Automated valves, for example, would permit natural gas companies to turn off the gas within minutes of an incident.
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Duke and Toronto Hydro Unveil Two ProjectsJan 24, 2013 |
Power producers are infatuated with energy storage, realizing that it could be a game-changer. But they are readily acknowledging that technical and financial barriers exist and that overcoming them is paramount if the devices are to reach their potential.
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Jan 23, 2013 |
Capitalism’s invisible hand has some interference when it comes to exporting liquefied natural gas. The producers of that super-cooled fuel want to ship their product overseas but manufacturers remain defiant and are blocking their path.
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Jan 22, 2013 |
It’s a new day -- and the first one of President Obama’s second term. And while his inaugural address was not intended to draft public policy it was meant to provide the nation a blueprint of what issues he feels deserve attention.
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Jan 21, 2013 |
A panel of experts, including Chris Irwin with the U.S. Department of Energy, Gordon Matthews with the Bonneville Power Administration, Bob Saint with the National Rural Electric Cooperative (NRECA), Robert Burke with ISO New England and Robert Frazier with CenterPoint Energy discussed a vision for the American power grid of the future at the Grid Interop conference.
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Jan 20, 2013 |
In this industry, we talk a lot about the smart grid: what it means, what it doesn’t mean, what excitement it brings, what it doesn’t cover enough, how to understand it ourselves and, even, how to make consumers understand it.
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Jan 17, 2013 |
A new report that says climate change is a matter of national urgency is getting a cold reception from leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee says that the evidence of the earth’s warming is becoming more apparent.
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Jan 16, 2013 |
The smart grid building blocks have gradually been put in place from utilities investing billions of dollars to make their networks more intelligent.
Consequently, a growing number of energy companies now have increased visibility into their generation and distribution systems and a clear communication channel to their customers. So, now what? That question is being raised in many utility boardrooms, and a variety of straightforward and a few unexpected answers are emerging.
