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Reducing Carbon Emissions (Oracle Utilities Blog)
Oracle blog post alking up the need for smart grids to support rollout of electric vehicles
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Is China really going green? – Telegraph
At Dabancheng, a few miles outside the city, great forests of windmills stretch to the horizon, their blades beating out a lazy rhythm that belies the sudden urgency with which China’s rulers are now investing in renewable energy.The speed with which China is now ramping up its commitment to alternative energies has caught even the most optimistic analysts by surprise, with new green edicts being issued from Beijing on an almost weekly basis.
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EPA Moves to Regulate Contaminated Runoff From Power Plants – washingtonpost.com
Faced with new evidence that utilities across the country are dumping toxic sludge into waterways, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving to impose new restrictions on the level of contaminants power plants can discharge.
Plants in Florida, Pennsylvania and several other states have flushed wastewater with levels of selenium and other toxins that far exceed the EPA’s freshwater and saltwater standards aimed at protecting aquatic life, according to data the agency has collected over the past few years
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A Dozen Things the Smart Grid Can Learn from the Internet
Balaji Natarajan is a senior IT strategist for Capgemini, focusing on smart grid, mobile computing, and unified communications.
History is a great teacher. The Internet took decades to evolve and take shape. Now upon us is a more critical challenge: how to build and sustain a smarter power grid. The tech community is already starting to initiate significant efforts to address this challenge, but here are some thoughts for how we can learn from the history of how the Internet was built, which will help us move into the fast-lane to tackle this massive task and monumental opportunity.
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A Military Shade of Green | EcoSalon – The Green Gathering
these days, military green is more about embracing green energy and green technologies than the color of a uniform.
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