Brighter future for home energy management?
After a slow start, adoption of solutions for reducing residential electricity consumption is expected to accelerate into 2020.
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As the global warming debate rages, Heather Clancy chronicles the smart grid, electric vehicles, alternative energy, green IT and other developments shaping the green technology movement.
Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist specializing in transformative technology and innovation
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EPEAT keeps ultra-thin notebooks in green registry, despite concerns over recycling
Environmental watchdog Greenpeace worries that EPEAT's move to support the emerging systems category will encourage more electronic waste.
Dell, IBM address the smart grid's Big Data challenge
What good is all the real-time information being collected about energy consumption if the IT infrastructure doesn't exist to make sense of it?
New energy storage technology acts like a UPS for your entire house
Priced starting around $45,000 the device from Rosewater Energy is pitched as a complement to solar installations or for places where the grid electricity supply is unreliable.
How much does the environment 'like' this product? PepsiCo's new footprinting tool makes educated guess
The giant food and beverage company is using the same predictive analytics techniques used by companies like Facebook or Netflex to more quickly assess carbon emissions down to the product level.
New solar charger promises to juice up mobile gadgets at 'outlet speeds'
The Kickstarter campaign for the SunVolt Solar Power Station raised more than $67,000 -- more than double what the company behind it, Gomadic, was seeking.
Microsoft applies big data toward cataloging endangered species
Developer lends expertise to help conservation group strengthen priorities on the "red list" of threatened plants, fungi and animals -- keeping it updated much more easily.
Nest smart thermostat goes on diet, works with more home energy systems
The new edition is 20 percent thinner than the original and works with 95 percent of all the residential cooling and heating technologies sold in the United States, according to Nest Labs.
How big data can help conserve energy
As more businesses focus on energy efficiency measures to cut electricity costs, analytics applications and services are emerging to help prioritize.
How 'clean' is the source of your data center power?
The energy efficiency of cloud and IT infrastructure is super important for the bottom line, but where electricity is sourced will be scrutinized more closely in the future.