• Hard truths about Uzbek cotton — latimes.com

  The strongman regime is making huge profits on the backs of the nation’s children while ignoring calls to halt its violations of international labor regulations.

  tags: cotton, uzbek, uzbekistan, children, child labour, greenmonktv

• Nike Resigns from Chamber Board

  Nike announces it is resigning from the US Chamber Board of Directors.

  tags: nike, chamber of commerce, greenmonktv

• What If Climate Action Actually Accelerates Economic Growth?

  Economics is not my strong suit, but I’m trying to wrap my brains around the economic discussion of climate action, and where it’s gone wrong, since it increasingly seems to me that there’s a strong argument to be made that climate action will accelerate the economy, not drag it down.

  tags: climate change, economic growth, harbergers triangle, greennumbers, greenmonktv

• Nation’s Largest Utility Leaves U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Over Climate Denial

  Exelon CEO John Rowe announced that his company – the largest electric utility company in the United States – would not renew its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of its opposition to global warming action

  tags: exelon, chamber of commerce, climate change, greenmonktv

• The New Sputnik

  Most people would assume that 20 years from now when historians look back at 2008-09, they will conclude that the most important thing to happen in this period was the Great Recession. I’d hold off on that. If we can continue stumbling out of this economic crisis, I believe future historians may well conclude that the most important thing to happen in the last 18 months was that Red China decided to become Green China.

  tags: china, green, sputnik, greenmonktv

• Malawi windmill boy with big fans

  The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

  tags: wind, africa, malawi, greenmonktv

• Green points for Hewlett Packard and Apple | Greenpeace International

  Apple and Hewlett Packard get green points this month, as HP is rewarded in the latest edition of our Guide to Greener Electronics and Apple releases details of their greenhouse gas emissions. But the big points go to activist consumers for proving once again that public pressure creates positive change.

  tags: apple, hp, greenpeace, guide to greener electronics, csr, pvc, bfr, greenmonktv

• Supermarkets get cold feet over fridge doors

  What’s the biggest and easiest thing that supermarkets could do to cut their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint? They all know the answer. Put doors on their fridges.

  tags: supermarkets, energy bill, carbon footprint, energy, efficiency, fridge, greenmonktv

• WWF – Spain takes international water treaty past half way mark

  Spain late last month boosted efforts to bring into effect an international treaty to share and protect rivers and lakes crossing or forming international borders, telling the United Nations General Assembly it was committed to jointly addressing issues of security, development and protection of the environment.

  tags: spain, water, greenmonktv, wwf, un

• Following Trash on Its Journey Through the Waste Disposal System – NYTimes.com

  Karin Landsberg, 42, a self-described “eco-geek” in Seattle, was so curious that she invited researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into her home last month to fish 12 items out of her garbage and recycling bins — a can of beans, a compact fluorescent light bulb — and tag them with small electronic tracking devices.

  tags: rubbish, trash, recycling, tracking, greenmonktv

• A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth by Bill McKibben: Yale Environment 360

  It has been more than 30 years since a groundbreaking book predicted that if growth continued unchecked, the Earth’s ecological systems would be overwhelmed within a century. The latest study from an international team of scientists should serve as an eleventh-hour warning that cannot be ignored.
  by bill mckibben

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• Renewable Energy Magazine: Renewable Energy News – your source for renewable energy news– solar, wind, biomass, biofuel, hydro, CO2, solar thermal, hydro power, climate change, carbon trading..

  For the second time within twelve months, the conservative French Government has proposed raising the feed-in tariff for solar PV in the coming year. The Minister for the Environment, Jean-Louis Borloo, has announced that new feed-in tariffs for solar energy will come into effect as of 1 January 2010.

  tags: france, solar, feed-in tariffs, solar power, micro-generation, greenmonktv

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• California Utility Plans for Electric Cars – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com

  The chairman of PG&E, northern California’s largest utility is preparing for the onset of electric cars — soon

  tags: pg&e, smart garage, smart grid, v2g, ev, phev, plug in hybrid, greenmonktv

• Utility Replaces Some Coal With Switchgrass – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com

  More electricity is already coming from solar and wind sources, so why not from switchgrass?

  NRG Energy, a wholesale power generation company that operates in the United States, Australia and Germany, is experimenting with that possibility. The company announced on Wednesday that it has begun a pilot project to replace some coal with locally grown switchgrass and sorgham at its Big Cajun II plant in Louisiana.

  tags: nrg energy, biomass, sorghum, switchgrass, coal, greenmonktv

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• Google Writing Smart Grid Software for Hybrids – Reviews by PC Magazine

  Google Inc is in the early stages of looking at ways to write software that would fully integrate plug-in hybrid vehicles to the power grid, minimize strain on the grid and help utilities manage vehicle charging load.

  “We are doing some preliminary work,” said Dan Reicher, Google’s director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives. “We have begun some work on smart charging of electric vehicles and how you would integrate large number of electric vehicles into the grid successfully.”

  tags: smart grid, google, phev, plug in hybrid, demand response, greenmonktv

• Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us – environment – 30 September 2009 – New Scientist

  Let’s suppose that happens. Humanity’s ever-expanding footprint on the natural world leads, in two or three hundred years, to ecological collapse and a mass extinction. Without fossil fuels to support agriculture, humanity would be in trouble. “A lot of things have to die, and a lot of those things are going to be people,” says Tony Barnosky, a palaeontologist at the University of California, Berkeley. In this most pessimistic of scenarios, society would collapse, leaving just a few hundred thousand eking out a meagre existence in a new Stone Age.

  Whether our species would survive is hard to predict, but what of the fate of the Earth itself? It is often said that when we talk about “saving the planet” we are really talking about saving ourselves: the planet will be just fine without us. But would it? Or would an end-Anthropocene cataclysm damage it so badly that it becomes a sterile wasteland?

  tags: anthropocene, mass extinction, venus syndrome, greenmonktv

• HP SkyRoom sets low ceiling on videochat

  HP today came up with a videoconferencing product that could work out 1,000 times cheaper than the telepresence mega-productions itself and Cisco have been pushing.

  Cisco’s TelePresence or HP’s Halo can cost more than $300,000 for a boardroom suite setup, but HP’s SkyRoom could link two boardrooms for less than $300.

  tags: cisco, tlepresence, hp, skyroom, halo, videoconferencing, greenmonktv

• Greenwash: ConocoPhillips’ opposition to US climate bill is devious and dishonest | Fred Pearce | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  The green mission statements made by the US energy firm amount to nothing when it dirties its hands with tar sands and campaigns against Obama’s climate bill

  tags: conoco phillips, conocophillips, greenwash, tar sands, greenmonktv

• E.P.A. to Require Big Polluters to Report Emissions – NYTimes.com

  The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that it would require the nation’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to start tracking their emission levels on Jan. 1 and report them to the government.

  The E.P.A. said the reporting would cover roughly 85 percent of the greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States linked to global warming.

  tags: epa, greenhouse gas emissions, report emissions, greenmonktv

• South Africa softens stance on emissions targets – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  South Africa appears to have softened its position on greenhouse gas emissions, saying on Wednesday it would support cuts to prevent global warming.

  “On global warming, cabinet would like to correct the wrong impression that had been created that South Africa was opposed to targets being set on global warming,” cabinet spokesman Themba Maseko told journalists, according to Reuters.

  tags: south africa, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, greenmonktv

• Worldchanging: Bright Green: Planetary Boundaries and The Failure of Environmentalism

  Planetary boundaries are the natural limits on humanity’s use of the planet. Strikingly, until recently, no one had made a serious effort to quantify these limits in measurable ways. That’s why a new report from the Stockholm Resilience Center, attempting to give hard numbers for most of these boundaries, is so crucial.

  The Resilience Center focused in on nine boundaries: climate change, stratospheric ozone, land use change, freshwater use, biological diversity, ocean acidification, nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to the biosphere and oceans, aerosol loading and chemical pollution. These are each critical in their own ways:

  tags: planetary boundaries, resilience center, greenmonktv

• UPS to FedEx: We’re Greener Than You | ClimateBiz.com

  These days, to my delight (and, I hope, yours), big companies are battling over which one is more sustainable. I’m sure Michael Dell wasn’t happy to read that Hewlett Packard landed atop Newsweek’s new sustainability rankings of the S&P 500 companies, even though Dell was right behind at No. 2. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo monitor each other’s environmental initiatives nearly as closely as they vie for shelf space at Wal-Mart, which, not coincidentally, keeps an eye on the greening of all of its suppliers.

  Now UPS and FedEx, longtime and intense rivals, are going at it.

  tags: ups, fedex, sustainable, sustainability, greenmonktv

• HP Tightens Smart Grid Security – News – eWeekEurope.co.uk

  HP has launched a new audit service for smart grid technology, in response to a series of successful hacking attempts against energy meters and other infrastructure.

  tags: hp, smart grid, smart grid security, smart meter, ioactive, greenmonktv

• Smart Grid: Whirlpool Promises a Million Smart Clothes Dryers in 2 Years

  Whirlpool Corporation says it will manufacture a million Smart Grid-compatible clothes dryers by the end of 2011. In homes where utilities have two-way communications, clothes dryers could be controlled remotely by the utility, powering it down in times of peak usage or running the appliance at a time when electricity is cheaper (for example, at night). Whirlpool estimates that if a utility has time-of-use pricing in place, a smart dryer could save a consumer between $20 and $40 a year.

  tags: whirlpool, smart grid, clothes dryer, demand response, greenmonktv

• IBM Press room – 2007-08-01 IBM’s Project Big Green Spurs Global Shift to Linux on Mainframe – United States

  IBM to consolidate about 3,900 computer servers onto about 30 System z mainframes running the Linux operating system. The company anticipates that the new server environment will consume approximately 80 percent less energy than the current set up and expects significant savings over five years in energy, software and system support costs.

  tags: ibm, system z, mainframe, linux, project big green, greenmonktv

• Omnivore’s Dilemma: The pleasures, perils and ethics of choice | StarkSilverCreek – All Things West Coast

  Michael Pollan, in ‘Omnivore’s Dilemma’ attempts to trace back the history of four very different meals: one from a fast food chain, one based on the multitude of Organic-labeled food, another from a sustainably-farmed meal and finally a meal that was foraged by the author himself.

  tags: omnivoers dilemna, omnivore, food, traceability, greenmonktv

• Rise in sea levels can’t be reversed – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  Even if carbon emissions were cut to zero immediately, sea levels would continue to rise through the coming centuries, scientists say. A likely projection is an increase of up to five meters over 300 years.

  tags: sea level rise, carbon emissions, ipcc, greenmonktv

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• Dragonflies Go Thirsty in Mediterranean, Threatened with Extinction : TreeHugger

  Bad news for dragonflies and damselflies as the global water crisis crunches down on us. Due to climate change and poor land management leading to habitat degradation, one fifth of Mediterranean dragonflies and damselflies are threatened with extinction, according to a report by the IUCN.

  tags: dragonflies, damselflies, water, water crisis, extinction, mediterranean, greenmonktv

• EU to propose emissions cuts for planes and ships – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  Reductions of 10 and 20 percent respectively are likely to be the European Union’s bid at UN-led climate talks in Bangkok this week.

  tags: eu, shipping industry, shipping, planes, aviation, emissions cuts, greenmonktv

• Bra girl charged for posing as a Pc | News

  Eleven G20 campaigners are being prosecuted for impersonating police officers despite some being half-dressed and wielding toy machineguns

  tags: uk, police, g20, greenmonktv

• RTÉ News: 90 jobs set for Clare water bottling company

  90 new jobs are to be created over the next three years by a Co Clare based bottled water company.

  The Clare Spring Water Company is investing over €4m in the development of what they say is Ireland’s first bio-degradable and compostable plastic bottle.

  This is a bad idea, it takes far more energy to bottle and transport water than to use water from the tap.

  tags: bottled water, bio-degradable, compostable, greenmonktv

• British firm Mabey and Johnson convicted of bribing foreign politicians | Business | guardian.co.uk

  BAE the next target as bridge-building firm becomes first major UK company to be convicted of foreign bribery

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• Autumn comes early because of drought – Telegraph

  Autumn is coming early this year with leaves falling off the trees faster than usual and plants dying back because of a drought, according to experts

  tags: autumn, climate change, kew, greenmonktv

• Nestlé defends buying milk from Grace Mugabe’s dairy

  Workers living on pittance despite farm producing 6 500 litres a day

  tags: nestle, zimbabwe, mugabe, csr, greenmonktv

• The World’s Top 10 Worst Pollution Problems: Scientific American

  From the residue of mining to untreated sewage, the world is grappling with a host of environmental problems – here is a list of 10 of the worst

  tags: pollution, mining, sewage, greenmonktv

• Australian Town Bans Sale Of Bottled Water For Environmental Reasons | World News | Sky News

  A small town in Australia has become the first in the world to ban the sale of bottled water.

  People in Bundanoon in New South Wales voted in favour of the ban three months ago and since then, chilled filtered water dispensers have been installed throughout the town.

  tags: bottled water, bottled water ban, bundanoon, greenmonktv

• Spider Wranglers Weave One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry : NPR

  This week in New York, the American Museum of Natural History unveiled something never before seen: an 11-by-4-foot tapestry made completely of spider silk.

  Weavers in Madagascar took four years to make it, and the museum says there’s no other like it in the world.

  tags: tapestry, spider, spiders silk, silk, greenmonktv

• EnerNOC ‘scratching surface’ of demand response market | Cleantech Group

  Tim Healy is seeing utilities doubling what they spent in 2007-08 on new energy efficient technologies and products.

  So he, and some of his competitors, are trying to usher that vision along, filing a protest yesterday with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for new market rules to make energy efficiency more appealing to American utilities than building new power generation.

  tags: enernoc, demand response, ferc, greenmonktv

• Nissan to lease LEAF battery for $150/month — Autoblog Green

  Aside from the issue of limited range, the biggest problem with electric vehicles in the near term is expected to be cost. Mitsubishi has already announced that the starting price for its diminutive iMiEV in Japan will be approximately $47,000 before incentives and Tesla’s Model S will start at $57,000 (before incentives) and likely go up rapidly from there. One of the ideas being floated for reducing the up front cost of EVs is battery leasing

  tags: ev, EVs, electric vehicles, nissan, battery, battery leasing, greenmonktv

• Dangers for journalists who expose environmental issues

  The following is the text of report [PDF] released by Reporters Without Borders. It looks at 13 cases of journalists and bloggers who have been killed, physically attacked, jailed, threatened or censored for reporting on the environment, and highlights the need for a free press to tackle ecological challenges.

  tags: Reporters Without Borders, journalists, bloggers, environment, environmental reporting, greenmonktv

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• YouTube – CO2 Is Green Contact Your Senator Today

  Outrageous CO2 is Green TV ad

  tags: co2, CO2 is green, tv, ad, greenmonktv

• Philippines floods: hundreds dead or missing after storm | World news | guardian.co.uk

  Philippines floods: hundreds dead or missing after storm.

  A picture gallery of the after effects of the storm in the Phillipines

  tags: philippines, storm, ketsana, flooding, greenmonktv

• South Korean utility unveils $2.4bn clean energy budget – 28 Sep 2009 – BusinessGreen.com

  South Korea’s state-run power monopoly announced yesterday that it will spend US$2.4bn by 2020 on developing clean energy technologies.

  tags: green-numbers, south korea, korea electric power, kepco, greenmonktv

• Thousands more parking places created at stations – but only for cyclists – Times Online

  The daily misery of hunting for a space in the railway station car park and being charged up to £20 for the privilege will soon be over for thousands of commuters — if they switch from petrol to pedal power.

  The Government will announce today that it is creating 10,000 additional secure cycle spaces at stations as part of a commitment to “put cycling at the heart of transport policy”. Hundreds of stations will get cycle stands monitored by CCTV cameras or with cages accessible by swipe cards. Ministers have not yet ruled out reallocating spaces from cars to bikes.

  tags: cycling, cyclists, transport, green-numbers, greenmonktv

• Met Office: catastrophic climate change could happen with 50 years – Telegraph

  Catastrophic climate change could happen with 50 years, five decades earlier than previously predicted, according to a Met Office report.

  tags: hadley, climate change, met office, greenmonktv

• Better world: Global green heroes – environment – 28 September 2009 – New Scientist

  It is no secret that the environment is facing some major challenges. Yet despite all the gloom there are some corners of the world where things are changing for the better. Here are a few examples to prove that when communities, city officials and governments put their minds to it they can move environmental mountains. Now all we need is more of the same, and fast…

  tags: green, green heroes, greenmonktv

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• Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize – NYTimes.com

  he ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb badly needs a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first company that figures out how to do it.

  Right now, that company could be Philips, the Dutch electronics giant. The company announced on Thursday that it had submitted the first entry for the L Prize, an Energy Department contest that will award up to $10 million to the first person or group to create a new energy-sipping version of the most popular type of light bulb used in America.

  tags: incandescent, light bulb, philips, L prize, led, cfl, GreenNumbers, greenmonktv

• Chemical Time Bomb in Ukraine Endangers 7 Million People

  The health of at least 7 million inhabitants in Moldavia and Ukraine is seriously threatened by a single stock of old pesticides.

  This has been reported by the International HCH and Pesticides Association (IHPA). According to the organization the EU must act as fast as possible to disarm this ‘biggest chemical time bomb of Europe’.

  tags: pesticides, pollution, ukraine, moldavia, hcb, GreenNumbers, greenmonktv

• Commerce Secretary Unveils Plan for Smart Grid Interoperability

  Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today unveiled an accelerated plan for developing standards to transform the U.S. power distribution system into a secure, more efficient and environmentally friendly Smart Grid and create clean-energy jobs.

  The draft of the report is available at http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/smartgrid_interoperability.pdf.

  Produced by the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the approximately 90-page document identifies about 80 initial standards that will enable the vast number of interconnected devices and systems that will make up the nationwide Smart Grid to communicate and work with each other. These standards will support interoperability of all the various pieces of the system—ranging from large utility companies down to individual homes and electronic devices. The report also lists a set of 14 “priority action plans” that address the most important gaps in the initial standard set.

  tags: commerce secretary, gary locke, nist, standards, smart grid standards, smart grid, greenmonktv

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• Siemens, Silver Spring announce Smart Grid interoperability | VentureBeat

  Interoperability is the elephant in the room that is the Smart Grid space. As large companies, startups and utilities alike strive to create a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid — deploying new technologies wherever they can — it is becoming increasingly important for their devices and networks to be able to communicate and work together. Toward that end, leading smart meter and wireless networking provider Silver Spring Networks announced that its equipment can now integrate seamlessly with electrical substations made by Siemens.

  Announced today at the GridWeek conference in Washington, D.C., the deal follows in the same vein as Smart Grid network provider Trilliant’s with substation and power automation provider ABB, unveiled yesterday.

  tags: smart grid, silver spring networks, siemens, greenmonktv

• Cisco recruits Smart Grid players into interoperable consortium | VentureBeat

  A day after IBM announced its new SAFE software package providing a standard infrastructure platform for utilities and Smart Grid startups, Cisco Systems has announced its own consortium of companies adopting common IP-based communications standards. In doing so, the company hopes to network Smart Grid stakeholders into a completely interoperable ecosystem for sending and receiving energy consumption data.

  tags: cisco, ecosystem, energy consumption data, smart grid, greenmonktv

• IBM launches software to standardize, accelerate smart grid startups | VentureBeat

  As large companies like Intel, Cisco and AT&T eye participation in the new, emerging Smart Grid, IBM has jumped in with both feet — providing software that greases the wheels of grid development and pouring $2 billion into startups and utilities building out a cleaner, more efficient grid. Today, it expanded its presence even more with the launch of its Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE) for startups, a software package intended to support basic operations so that companies can focus on innovation.

  tags: ibm, safe, smart grid, interoperability, greenmonktv

• Silver Spring Networks gobbles up Greenbox to become Smart Grid powerhouse | VentureBeat

  Silver Spring Networks, a startup that provides IP-based networks and advanced wireless meters to utilities and their customers, just announced that it is acquiring Greenbox Technology, a maker of monitor displays that show homeowners how much energy they are using and how much it is costing them. This extends Silver Spring’s lead over the competition as it eyes an increasingly likely IPO.

  In addition to generous funding, Silver Spring also enjoys high-profile utility partnerships with Pepco, Pacific Gas & Electric, Florida Power & Light, Commonwealth Edison and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District — accounting for 25 percent of the U.S. population. It also has a substantial presence in Australia and is rolling out new utility deals every day.

  tags: silver spring networks, greenbox, smart meters, smart grid, greenmonktv

• Itron teams with OpenPeak to bring smart meter data to touchscreens | VentureBeat

  Major smart electric meter maker Itron announced today that it has joined forces with home energy management device maker OpenPeak. Their combined technologies will help both utilities and their customers keep closer tabs on exactly how much electricity is being used, why, and how much it is costing.

  Itron will be integrating OpenPeak’s line of easy-to-use touchscreen monitors into its smart meter systems

  tags: itron, openpeak, smart meter, smart grid, touchscreen, demand response, greenmonktv

• US government doubles green stimulus program – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  The US government on Tuesday announced that it will allocate an additional 550 million US dollars in grants to develop renewable energy projects. The goal is to double the US production of renewable energy from solar, wind, biomass and other renewable energy production facilities in a few years.

  tags: renewable energy, solar, wind, biomass, greenmonktv

• San Jose, PG&E lift veil on major Smart Grid collaboration | VentureBeat

  Pacific Gas and Electric announced today that it’s partnering with the city of San Jose, Calif., to deploy a major project integrating smart meters provided by the utility with the city’s well-developed solar energy infrastructure.

  tags: pg&e, city of san jose, san jose, smart meter, smart meters, solar energy, greenmonktv

• HP Sets New Energy Reduction Goals, Reports on Environmental Programs

  HP today announced it has established new goals to reduce the energy use and carbon intensity of its operations and products as well as reported its progress on environmental initiatives across the company.

  HP has already met its goal of reducing combined energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of HP operations and products to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2010.

  HP’s new goal is to reduce the energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of all its products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011.

  tags: hp, energy, energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, greenmonktv

• Nissan Tackles the Silent Electric Car Problem | Triple Pundit

  So Tabata and his team consulted Japanese film score composers, and eventually settled on a sound reminiscent of the flying cars in the sci-fi noir film Blade Runner.

  tags: nissan, nissan leaf, noise, blade runner, greenmonktv

• Green power line to Los Angeles hits roadblock | Green Business | Reuters

  Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to make Los Angeles the “cleanest, greenest big city” in the United States, but a key project to bring renewable energy across the desert to the city could change under pressure from environmental groups.

  Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest U.S. municipal utility with 4 million customers, wants to build an 85-mile transmission line for clean energy, called the Green Path North transmission line.

  Activists have decried a proposed path that would cut through the Yucca Valley, two wildlife preserves and the San Bernardino National Forest.

  Building transmission lines to bring in power from solar and wind farms has raised environmental and permitting issues across the nation.

  tags: los angeles, renewable energy, green path north, transmission lines, greenmonktv

• Smart Grid Stimulus: Wait for It, DOE Says | Green Light

  Rumors that the Department of Energy was going to announce the first winners of $3.9 billion in smart grid stimulus grants this week have been greatly exaggerated.

  That’s according to Jen Stutsman, DOE deputy press secretary, speaking Tuesday at the GridWeek conference in Washington, D.C..

  The jam-packed smart grid industry event has had its share of hopeful rumors that grants from the DOE’s commercial-scale and demonstration-scale smart grid programs might come a bit early this year (see DOE Issues Rules for $3.9B in Smart Grid Stimulus Grants).

  But Stutsman reiterated that the DOE expects to make its first announcements in mid-November, dashing those hopes.

  tags: smart grid stimulus, smart grid, doe, greenmonktv

• Electricity costs should move to reflect demand: Chu | Green Business | Reuters

  electricity rates will need to rise to reflect periods of intense energy use and to encourage consumers to change their electricity habits, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu

  tags: steven Chu, doe, energy secretary, demand response, smart grid, greenmonktv

• Microsoft Utilities Delivery Solutions

  Microsoft and our partners are preparing for the increasing sophistication and automation of the grid, including the entry of a new type of energy consumer who is also an energy producer and source of stored energy.

  tags: microsoft, smart grid, greenmonktv

• Cisco Continues Global Smart Grid Momentum

  Cisco today announced further steps in its efforts to enable development of an end-to-end, highly secure Smart Grid communications infrastructure that will help utility companies and their customers optimize energy supply and demand, improve smart grid security and reliability, and reduce operational costs.

  tags: cisco, smart grid, greenmonktv

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