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What makes a utility go 'smart'?

Why would any utility provider undertake the massive expense to upgrade its customer base to smart meters and spend further

Dan Ilett · 2 min read

VYCON, Kinetic tap waste-energy niches

Building an energy-secure future means more than developing clean renewables and ways to store power from intermittent sources like wind

Dan Ilett · 2 min read

Siemens, GE bank futures on energy

With 2011 now well under way, many big technology and IT companies are assessing their financial performances of the past

Dan Ilett · 2 min read

Storage critical to future grid

Around the world, development of renewables has been speeding up, even if — in most regions — wind and solar energy continue

Dan Ilett · 3 min read

Business 'ants' will win in long run

There’s a special kind of tormented satisfaction reserved for people like Lord Nicholas Stern and companies like Comverge, 1E,

Dan Ilett · 2 min read

Firms fail in energy, CloudApps finds

Despite all the hype about “sustainability,” too many companies still don’t get it. Insulating business against the growing limits

Dan Ilett · 2 min read