• 10 questions for Tendril CFO David Rayner

  By Nancy Weil | 02 April, 2012 23:25

  Name: David Rayner

• Google invests in more renewable energy production capacity

  By Peter Sayer | 21 December, 2011 03:17

  Google has paid US$94 million for a stake in four photovoltaic power generation projects around Sacramento, California, bringing its total investment in renewable energy generation this year to $880 million, it announced Tuesday.

• Japan group to build smart power grids that treat energy like network data

  By Jay Alabaster | 12 December, 2011 18:10

  Using concepts from IT and networking, a Japanese consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that will handle power the way the Internet handles data, using "routers" and "service providers" to efficiently manage and direct the flow of electricity.

• While we wait for cold fusion, let's update the ECPA

  By Mark Gibbs | 24 October, 2011 15:29

  Well, last week's Backspin on Rossi's E-Cat power generator was fun. Between that column and a blog posting I made on the topic over at Forbes, I've had more than 100 comments and an insane number of page views which all goes to show just what a hot topic alternative energy is.

• Cheap power: An overnight revolution

  By Mark Gibbs | 15 October, 2011 04:51

  Every now and then along comes a technology that is revolutionary and changes everything. But a very few of these new technologies cause fast change. Mostly they seep out of the lab, into the arms of early adopters, and then ooze out into the world in general.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 3

  By David Braue | 04 May, 2011 09:33

  Adding new layers for both improved communications and business-focused data analysis may add pressure to already pressured CIOs, but information executives aren’t the only ones staring down organisational change as a result of the industry’s new information-driven dynamics.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 2

  By David Braue | 03 May, 2011 10:29

  Smart meters have a way to go. The recent 2010 Australian Smart Grid Study, a survey of 13 Australian utilities by sector consultancy Logica, showed an average self-reported maturity rating of just 2.14 on a scale of 1 to 5, and communications networks to support them rated 2.80.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 1

  By David Braue | 02 May, 2011 11:28

  Like any entrepreneur, Andrew Dyer is excited about the possibilities for his clean-energy venture, BrightSource Energy. The company, of which he is a director, is this year partnering with energy giant Chevron to cover 1000 acres of the US desert with 4000 mirrors that reflect sunlight onto three boilers mounted atop each of three 100 metre towers.

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