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Google Energy to start disrupting the utility industry?

by Tom Raftery on January 10, 2010 · 20 comments

in utilities

Photo credit filippo minelli
There is no doubt about it but Google is a disruptive company.
First Google disrupted search, then advertising, then video (with their acquisition of YouTube), and then Office applications with the launch and continued development of Google Apps for Domains. Most recently Google has disrupted the mobile phone industry, first with the [...]

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REALLY Smart Meters!

by Tom Raftery on December 9, 2008 · 9 comments

in smart grid

Photo Credit yewenyi
Smart electricity meter projects are being rolled out all over the globe at this stage (here’s a map of the Smart Meter projects in the US), and with the Smart Meters, come Smart Grids and Demand Response programs whereby the utilities implement peak shaving programs (and in certain cases demand stimulation) to match [...]

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