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The future of electric utilities – change and disruption ahead

November 19, 2015 By Tom Raftery

The utilities industry has typically been change averse, and often for good reasons, but with the technological advances of the past few years, the low carbon imperative, and pressure from customers, utilities are going to have to figure out how to disrupt their business, or they will themselves be disrupted. I gave the opening keynote […]

Flexible Power Alliance develops open source software and standard for smart grid demand management

November 11, 2015 By Tom Raftery

We have been talking here on GreenMonk about energy demand management since early 2008, and our take on it has always been that for demand management to work, it will need to be automated. Unfortunately, finding a decent automated demand management solution has proven elusive. In part, the recent rise of the Internet of Things […]

What do we do in a world where energy is in abundance?

July 2, 2015 By Tom Raftery

The cost of solar power is falling in direct relation to the amount of solar power modules being produced. With no end in sight to this price reduction, we should soon be in a world where energy is in abundance. Moore’s Law, the law which says the number of transistors in computers doubles every two […]

GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption

June 18, 2015 By Tom Raftery

Mobile industry consortium GreenTouch today released tools and technologies which, they claim, have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of communication networks by 98% The world is now awash with mobile phones. According to Ericsson’s June 2015 mobility report [PDF warning], the total number of mobile subscriptions globally in Q1 2015 was 7.2 billion. […]

Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine

May 29, 2015 By Tom Raftery

We attended this year’s SapphireNow event (SAP’s customer and partner conference) in Orlando and were very impressed with some of the advances SAP and their ecosystem are making in the field of healthcare. Why is this important? Healthcare for many decades now has been stagnant when it comes to technological disruption. Go to most hospitals […]

IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT

IBM has announced the completion of the acquisition The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web-properties, weather.com, Weather Underground, The Weather Company brand and WSI, its global business-to-business brand. At first blush this may not seem like an obvious pairing, but the Weather Company’s products are not just their free apps for your smartphone, they […]

Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

We have highlighted here on GreenMonk often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is heartening to see some more enlightened cloud companies doing the right thing. Salesforce announced today its second renewable energy purchase agreement. […]

Epson EcoTank – an inkjet printer which doesn’t use inkjet cartridges

“Oh boy, I just love buying inkjet cartridges”. Said no-one. Ever. They are expensive, they run out just when we need them most, or worse they clog, and there is never a recycling bin nearby when it is time to dispose of them. So what’s the choice? Laser printers? Well, they are good for black […]

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