Tag Archives: Energy development

Tesla Energy Launches New Batteries for Homes, Businesses, and Power Plants

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Tesla is now an energy company.Elon Musk has finally unveiled the missing piece. At Tesla’s Energy Event in California today, Musk announced a new battery that could power a single house for 1.8...

Tesla Energy Launches New Batteries for Homes, Businesses, and Power Plants

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Elon Musk has finally unveiled the missing piece. At Tesla’s Energy Event in California today, Musk announced a new battery that could power a single house for 1.8 billion years and even supply...

CES 2015 will also showcase WiTricity’s Rezence-Enabled Solutions

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WiTricity is the leader in wireless power transfer over distance and today it has announced its plans of demonstrating its new technology to the visitors of the CES 2015. The demonstrations will...

Greenpeace says Amazon Cloud Operation Lags On Green Credentials

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Facebook and Apple used to bear the brunt of Greenpeace’s ongoing campaign for cleaner data centers, but both companies have made strides in energy efficiency and renewable power sourcing and the...

Insurers Have Huge Role As Clean Energy Investors

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Conversations about climate change and the insurance industry usually focus on catastrophic storms and their damaging financial ripples for insurance providers. Given skyrocketing extreme-weather...

Is Shutting Working Nuclear Plants Jeopardizing Obama’s Climate Goals?

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Concern is mounting in the Obama Administration over a growing number of nuclear reactors that are being closed prematurely. For the wrong reasons. On Thursday, Dr. Peter Lyons, Assistant Secretary...

Hacks on Gas (and the Grid): Relationship between Cybersecurity, Energy and National Defense

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Whenever a doomsday scenario involving the nation’s computer networks is invoked, invariably one aspect of it involves a massive disruption of the electrical grid. Computers go haywire, expensive and...

IBM, Migros Test How Freezer Loads Could Balance the Power Grid

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A couple of months ago, I wrote about some of the experiments focused on using electric vehicles as a storage mechanism that could help balance power demand across the grid. IBM has been applying a...

Employees in German Solar Power Industry Losing their Jobs

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Germany‘s solar power industry shed a staggering 5,000 jobs over the past two years, reducing the size of the industry by more than half, according to new data released on Tuesday by the Federal...