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Commodity derivatives trading in water? It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds, and it may become part of the energy business soon. Water supply is critical to 89% of all electricity generation...
View ArticleSaving Energy in Commercial Buildings: Philadelphia Navy Yard
Around 3,000 commercial building owners and contractors are weighing a new request for proposals on energy retrofits from an institution that’s a national leader in reducing energy consumption by...
View ArticleHow Your Electric Car Will Soon Be Like Your Mobile Phone
One of the primary concerns about electric cars among vehicle buyers remains the question of where they can plug it in. IBM, which has made a specialty in recent years of using its experience with...
View ArticleThe Smart Grid in 2013: Charged for Growth
In the past year, the grid has seen some remarkable highs, while also being tested to meet the basic needs of society. On one hand, big advances have flourished, fundamentally changing the way we...
View ArticleIBM: Putting A ‘Human Face’ to Big Data
It is rare to hear “we can’t do that” in the world of information technology today. Given the scale of potential technology investments and the flood of resulting information the challenge today is...
View ArticleIBM on US Energy Cybersecurity: Keep Calm and Carry On
For years predictions of the horror show that could happen if the nation’s electricity grid was compromised by hackers proliferated in inverse correlation to the number of attacks; the sector went...
View ArticleIBM and CenterPoint Energy: Customers, Utilities Get Closer on New Platform
The promise of smart grid has long been a closer and two-directional link between energy customers and providers. It has been the promise of an end to the decades of opaque or confusing bills arriving...
View ArticleOpEd: Why We Should Pity Utilities
It’s time for some compassion for the owners of America’s $374 billion power industry – twenty-two of whose member firms appear on the Fortune 500 list. While the fate of these companies may not...
View ArticleWho is Your Utility’s Chief Risk Officer?
When Exelon merged with Constellation, Joe Glace started reporting directly to the president and CEO, Christopher Crane. As the Chief Risk Officer for the mega-utility, it was imperative that he was...
View ArticleProtecting the Grid: How Secure is Secure?
The need to secure the electric grid against cyberattacks has attracted attention at both the corporate and policy level. But no one actually knows what “secure” really means, and making that...
View ArticleCleantech Leaders of New York: Top Ten
Cleantech is one of those words that traditionalists love to hate, and that self-described change advocates love to drop into conversation. Neither is entirely certain what it means, which is both the...
View ArticleThe Weather-Energy Nexus: Improving Forecasting to Enhance Energy Efficiency
Discussions of energy and climate change often focus on the need to reduce or modify energy end-use to cut down on emissions, which have the potential to accelerate average global temperature...
View ArticleUsing Technology to Get More Renewable Energy into the Power Grid
The unpredictability of renewable energy sources like wind and solar creates reliability challenges for utilities seeking to balance power supply and demand across centralized grid networks. Policies...
View ArticleIBM Invents Greener Cloud Computing Solution
The data explosion racing around the internet as people do more online banking, shopping and thousands of other things requires energy-hungry data centers to process and store the growing volumes of...
View ArticleIBM and CenterPoint Energy: Customers, Utilities Get Closer on New Platform
The promise of smart grid has long been a closer and two-directional link between energy customers and providers. It has been the promise of an end to the decades of opaque or confusing bills arriving...
View ArticleOpEd: Why We Should Pity Utilities
It’s time for some compassion for the owners of America’s $374 billion power industry – twenty-two of whose member firms appear on the Fortune 500 list. While the fate of these companies may not...
View ArticleWho is Your Utility’s Chief Risk Officer?
When Exelon merged with Constellation, Joe Glace started reporting directly to the president and CEO, Christopher Crane. As the Chief Risk Officer for the mega-utility, it was imperative that he was...
View ArticleProtecting the Grid: How Secure is Secure?
The need to secure the electric grid against cyberattacks has attracted attention at both the corporate and policy level. But no one actually knows what “secure” really means, and making that...
View ArticleCleantech Leaders of New York: Top Ten
Cleantech is one of those words that traditionalists love to hate, and that self-described change advocates love to drop into conversation. Neither is entirely certain what it means, which is both the...
View ArticleThe Weather-Energy Nexus: Improving Forecasting to Enhance Energy Efficiency
Discussions of energy and climate change often focus on the need to reduce or modify energy end-use to cut down on emissions, which have the potential to accelerate average global temperature increases...
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