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Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 2
CES Report: Smart Energy Makes Friends to Get to Market

CES Report: Smart Energy Makes Friends to Get to Market

Partners, platforms and connected everything push smart home energy into the mainstream at CES.

by Katherine Tweed
Grid Edge 5
Control4 Goes Quiet on Home Energy Tech

Control4 Goes Quiet on Home Energy Tech

The high-end home automation company isn’t fooling itself about the challenges of getting customers to buy into energy-saving technology.

by Jeff St. John
Grid Edge 0
Asian Smart Grid Update: India’s Big Push, Honeywell in China, Smart Streetlights

Asian Smart Grid Update: India’s Big Push, Honeywell in China, Smart Streetlights

Honeywell to build China’s first automated demand response system. Plus, India’s government directs $100 million at smart grid pilots.

by Jeff St. John
Wind 2
ABB Gets $50 Million for New Grid Work in Texas

ABB Gets $50 Million for New Grid Work in Texas

How semiconductors will grow renewables in the Lone Star State

by Herman K. Trabish
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Grid Edge 5
Ecologic Analytics Acquired by Landis+Gyr

Ecologic Analytics Acquired by Landis+Gyr

The last of the big meter data management software companies falls into the corporate fold.

by Jeff St. John
Grid Edge 0
Toshiba Using Landis+Gyr to Enter US Smart Grid, Smart Home Fray

Toshiba Using Landis+Gyr to Enter US Smart Grid, Smart Home Fray

The Japanese giant makes some moves with the Swiss smart metering giant it bought for $2.3 billion last year.

by Jeff St. John
Energy 2
Green Jobs: Where Do Solyndra PR Pros End Up?

Green Jobs: Where Do Solyndra PR Pros End Up?

Answer: at LSI. Plus, personnel moves at Rockport Capital, Soladigm, Cisco, and Impress Labs.

by Eric Wesoff
Grid Edge 0
Smart Grid Roundup: Silver Spring in Chicago, Tendril Wants Apps

Smart Grid Roundup: Silver Spring in Chicago, Tendril Wants Apps

Plus, Siemens buys energy services firm, and San Diego challenges Texas on energy savings.

by Jeff St. John
Efficiency 17
Energy Efficiency: Cheapest Power Around, but Getting More Expensive

Energy Efficiency: Cheapest Power Around, but Getting More Expensive

It costs 3.5 cents to save a kilowatt-hour in energy efficiency. That’s really cheap—as long as the low-hanging fruit holds out.

by Jeff St. John
Energy 3
2011 Saw Greentech M&A Double, IPOs Dry Up

2011 Saw Greentech M&A Double, IPOs Dry Up

Will 2012 be the breakout year for green technology IPOs? 2011 sure wasn’t.

by Jeff St. John
Grid Edge 36
Cost of Big PV to the Grid: $3 to $8 per Megawatt-Hour

Cost of Big PV to the Grid: $3 to $8 per Megawatt-Hour

A new study shows adding hundreds of megawatts of solar could cost Nevada utility NVEnergy millions of dollars in fossil fuel-fired backup.

by Jeff St. John
Grid Edge 3
Paul De Martini Leaves Cisco

Paul De Martini Leaves Cisco

He’s taking his show on the road to help utilities make the business case for smart grid.

by Katherine Tweed
Mobility 23
Motorcycles Born to be Mild—to the Environment, at Least

Motorcycles Born to be Mild—to the Environment, at Least

How to sell the quiet virtue of electric motorcycles into a market marked by noise and sweat? Try scary acceleration, disruptive manufacturing, cops and snowmobilers.

by Doug Widney
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 3
Lowe’s and AlertMe Launch Cloud-Based Home Automation Platform

Lowe’s and AlertMe Launch Cloud-Based Home Automation Platform

There’s plenty of room in the cloud—come on in.

by Katherine Tweed
Mobility 18
What Options Would You Like With Your Tesla EV?

What Options Would You Like With Your Tesla EV?

Roof style, wheel options, and paint colors now available online. Batteries warrantied for up to 8 years and from 100,000 to unlimited miles, depending on the model.

by Eric Wesoff
Finance & VC 2
A Flurry of Greentech Funding to Start 2012

A Flurry of Greentech Funding to Start 2012

The first week of 2012 yields some interesting deals for Kleiner-funded Transphorm, Ascent Solar, SoCore Energy, Renmatix, and more.

by Eric Wesoff
Top 10 0
The Greentech Year-End List of Lists

The Greentech Year-End List of Lists

One list to rule them all.

by Eric Wesoff
Batteries, Storage & Fuel Cells 12
Getting Renewables on the Grid, Part 4: Why PV and the Grid Need CSP
Research Spotlight

Getting Renewables on the Grid, Part 4: Why PV and the Grid Need CSP

Falling panel costs make PV appealing, mandates demand solar on the grid—CSP can make both easier.

by Herman K. Trabish
Networking/AMI 4
100 Million Meters Coming to Europe by 2016
Research Spotlight

100 Million Meters Coming to Europe by 2016

As the market slows in the U.S., it heats up in Europe.

by Katherine Tweed
Grid Edge 6
Smart Meter Sales to Triple, Chips Inside to Double, by 2016

Smart Meter Sales to Triple, Chips Inside to Double, by 2016

Will faltering economics and consumer opposition shrink the global smart meter market?

by Jeff St. John
Grid Edge 7
Tres Amigas Raises Money for US Grid Super-Hub

Tres Amigas Raises Money for US Grid Super-Hub

Tres Amigas lands $12 million from Mitsui to complete a $15 million round aimed at jumpstarting a billion-dollar plan to connect the three main US power grids.

by Jeff St. John
Grid Edge 10
Routing and Controlling the Grid With Advanced Electronics, Solid-State Transformers

Routing and Controlling the Grid With Advanced Electronics, Solid-State Transformers

The Japanese nonprofit Digital Grid Consortium has a new way to architect power grids, built around solid-state transformer technology—but it has a long road ahead.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 4
Home Energy Management: 8 Big Trends in 2011
Research Spotlight

Home Energy Management: 8 Big Trends in 2011

The market is still small, but 2011 showed that home area networking technologies are here to stay.

by Katherine Tweed
Grid Edge 70
The Top 5 Smart Grid Disappointments of 2011

The Top 5 Smart Grid Disappointments of 2011

What didn’t happen in the smart grid this year?

by Jeff St. John
Batteries, Storage & Fuel Cells 6
Sion Power Gets $50M for Lithium Sulfur Batteries

Sion Power Gets $50M for Lithium Sulfur Batteries

A 20-year-old “startup” spun out of Brookhaven National Labs building better batteries for electric vehicles

by Eric Wesoff