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In an effort to combat energy waste nationwide, the National Science Foundation gave a team of four Cornell faculty members a four-year, $1.9 million grant to research how to improve energy allocation through a “smart” electrical grid.
Solar panel giant SunPower has decided to embrace microinverters, which are a new emerging form of solar inverter that are embedded on each panel and are used to convert direct current generated by solar panels into alternating current for the grid.
Calico Energy is using SOA, cloud services, and data and analytics to quickly build a smart grid solution portfolio. Plus, a bold analyst prediction about who will win the soft grid.
The first 100 per cent electric Nissan Leaf arrived in Burnaby on Wednesday afternoon. Kelly Carmichael, a BCIT researcher, took possession of his new Nissan Leaf at Morrey Nissan, and he couldn't be happier. "I'm so excited," he said. "Becoming the owner of a Nissan Leaf is of significant importance to me . (because) for the past four years, BCIT and B.C. Hydro have worked together to establish Canada's very first Smart Microgrid on the main campus of BCIT
Adam Vaughan: With public and private charging networks shifting out of first gear, it is still early days for electric car take-up in the UK. After the launches of a Boris-backed recharging network in London (216 points) and a so-called national network from Ecotricity (12) this year, Chargemaster on Wednesday opened what it described as the "UK's first privately funded nationwide electric vehicle" network (around 150).
Now that Japan, Germany and other European countries have started to move away from nuclear plans, large fuel cell makers like FuelCell Energy are seeing an uptick in interest in those countries.
But the new graduation requirements raise concerns about the equity of access to online learning tools and the technological costs of supporting such measures.
What does ubiquitous broadband coverage mean for the education environment and what challenges and opportunities do schools face in adapting to this?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the Commodity Futures Trading Commission should adopt a rule with real teeth to limit oil speculators, not a watered-down measure set for a vote on Tuesday.
The aura of inevitability that once surrounded the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile is long gone. The aura of inevitability that once surrounded the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile is long gone.
With the growth, a lot more than 19000 homes, 1300 companies and far more than 123 community centers will gain broadband web accessibility. Other work is being carried out in New Mexico in order to deliver web services ...
The U.S.' forecasted 7 million LTE connections by year-end 2011 will make up 47% of worldwide LTE subscriptions,...
As the Internet continues to evolve as a medium for social and economic exchange, four experts suggest ways for the United States to improve its cyber competitiveness in the global marketplace.
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You probably heard a few weeks ago about how an astrology software company, Astrolabe, claimed it now controlled the copyright for the historical time zone database that nearly every Linux and Unix system uses to set clocks to local time...
For a few years now, we've been joking about how email is for old people.
The Brookings Institution in the U.S. recently reported on data from the Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey which highlighted changing immigrant demographics in metropolitan American city regions over the past ten years.
Germany’s federally-owned KfW banking group is facilitating renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in Germany with EUR 100 billion (over US$130 billion) over the next five years.
About two and a half years ago (soon after I did my first presentation about CwF+RtB), I was asked to stop by the YouTube offices, to talk about what things they might do to help artists earn more money.
In December 2007, the Wisconsin State Legislature passed the Video Competition Act, one of a dozen or so ALEC inspired pieces of legislation that deregulated the cable television field and wrested control from cities. The bill increased expenses and decreased income for community television. The law abrogated all existing local franchise agreements, and created a weak one size fits all state level license for video providers
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday said he will put a pending “bill shock” regulation on hold after the wireless industry promised to create its own program to alert consumers when they are about to be charged overage...
Free flowing news and information is essential to the health of democratic communities, but not all information environments are equally effective at meeting...
As public schools in Chicago have shifted their focus to online learning, the benefits have been blunted by the fact that home access to the Internet costs too much for some students, leading districts to look for different approaches to bring Internet access to the city’s poorest families.
At first sight, it’s hard to understand why the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and clinic in Louisiana, would lobby the Federal Communications Commission.
I went to Holland prepared to return feeling dispirited at the comparable state of British broadband to the Dutch fibre endeavours, which of course many of us are jealous of, and to discover just where it is we are going wrong.
DUNNELLON — The little town along the rivers is making a big bet on the Internet worthy of a riverboat gambler.
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