Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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Yes, you read the title correctly and no, NegaWatt is not one of my normal typos!
What then is a NegaWatt? A NegaWatt, is a MegaWatt of electricity that you don’t use! Huh?
Think of it like this, suppose a utility company has 100MW to supply.
Now let’s say their typical demand is 90MW.
If a [...]
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So, Nick Carr writes regularly about cloud computing and how the Internet is heading more and more towards the same model as the utilities. And he’s right. And this is a good thing.
Now let’s turn that on its head.
When will the utilities start to become more like the Internet? Specifically, when will [...]
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Energy Demand Management is a topic we have covered a few times on this blog already because we believe it will be a vital component in helping us better manage our energy resources in the future.
It is great then when you start to see utilities running successful trials of early EDM [...]
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In his wrap up to EnergyCamp last month, David Berlind said something which struck me strongly enough I am still thinking about it.
“The main thing I have learned today is that the wrong people are paying the bill.”
David made the statement in the context that he figures we’re due a 15 year shakeout before we really get a handle [...]
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SAP is doing some interesting work around environmental sustainability, working on issues such as carbon accounting and environmental monitoring and compliance. For now SAP is working with partners such as OSIsoft and Technidata to help flesh out its offerings.
But in keynote land environmental sustainability doesn’t seem to have become a top bullet point item [...]
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As you probably know by now, we’re very interested in the idea of what might constitute a green API or protocol, so I was very interested when I received a link via twitter from @Straxus (Ryan Slobojan).
The Aon Scéal? (That’s Any News in Gaelic) blog by Alastrain McKinstry points to this piece by Yves Poppe [...]
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Well, TechWebTV! I was over in Las Vegas this week attending EnergyCamp and InterOp.
I spoke about Energy Demand Management (EDM) at EnergyCamp and was pleasantly surprised at the level of interest in this topic. In fact there was so much interest that TechWebTV asked if I would go on camera to discuss EDM with Fritz [...]
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The post I wrote about energy demand management (EDM) last week certainly stimulated some discussion and got people thinking – always good.
It appears it was a timely post too as I came across two announcements which seem to indicate that the big utilities are looking very seriously at smart grids and EDM.
The [...]
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Image by Mancio7B9 via FlickrI read an article this morning on TechnologyReview.com which was makes the case for using more accurate weather forecasting to prevent blackouts and reduce pollution. Nothing wrong with this idea per se, but forecasting alone won’t go nearly far enough to solve instability problems introduced by increasing the amount of wind [...]
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