Power Grid

Campaign Energy Debate Missing the Biggest Opportunity

John Farrell | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Power Grid, Solar Energy, Electricity, Local, Renewable Energy, Utilities, Clean Energy, Solar Power, Green News
John Farrell

Within the next decade, 100 million Americans in the nation's largest cities will be able to get cheaper electricity from their own rooftop -- without subsidies -- than from their electric utility, according to a new report.

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WATCH: Huge Solar Storm Could Affect Astronauts, Satellites

AP/The Huffington Post | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Power Grid, Aurora Borealis, Video, Solar, Power Line, Sun, Satellite, Astronaut, Radiation, Solar Storms, Electromagnetic Radiation, Science News

WASHINGTON -- The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving er...

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Microgrids Grow Energy Independence

Robert Schwab | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Power Grid, Pike Research, Business, Microgrids, Peter Asmus, Power Generation, Denver News
Robert Schwab

Being energy independent by becoming your own distributor of electricity is an idea spreading among college campus administrators and the military.

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Tom Zeller Jr.

Jeremy Rifkin Predicts An Energy Revolution

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Energy, Power Grid, The Third Industrial Revolution, Electricity, Jeremy Rifkin, Economics, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Utilities, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Green News

On Monday, we posed a few questions to Jeremy Rifkin, the American economist and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, whose new book, "The ...

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Conversations You Won't Overhear

Terry Tamminen | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Russ Girling, Al Gore, Rex Tillerson, Solar, President Obama, Economy, Energy Crisis, National Governors Association, Ozone Rule, Canadian Tar Sands, Drought, Oprah Winfrey, Climate Change, Rick Perry, BP Oil Spill, Lady GaGa, Usepa, Job Creation, Mary Fallin, Global Warming, Green News
Terry Tamminen

As summer gives way to our back-to-work lives, busy execs will likely compare notes at Chamber of Commerce luncheons about the economy and job creation. We can all imagine those conversations, but here are a few you won't be likely to overhear.

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Southwest Power Outage A Reminder Of Power Grid Vulnerabilities

AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Energy, Southwest Power Outage, Power Grid, Mexico, Blackout, Southern California, San Diego, San Diego Power Outage, Power Grid Vulnerabilities, Los Angeles News

SAN DIEGO — A blackout that swept across parts of the Southwest and Mexico apparently began with a single utility worker and a minor repair job....

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Blistering Heat Wave Stressing Nation's Power Grid

AP | By JONATHAN FAHEY | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Energy, Power Grid, Heat Wave 2011, Businesses, Air Conditioning, Heat Wave, Green News, Homeowners, Weather, Power, Green News

NEW YORK -- A lengthy, blistering heat wave that is blanketing the eastern half of the United States is putting significant stress on the nation's pow...

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Gerry Smith

Fixing The Internet May Mean Building A New One

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Internet, Cybersecurity, Internet Anonymity, Cyber Attacks, Hackers, Cyber Security, Technology News

As hackers expose widespread cybersecurity lapses and heighten fears about defending critical infrastructure from attack, one proposed solution has st...

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LISTEN: More Solar Storms Coming?

Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Solar Science, Denver News, Space Weather Prediction Center, Energy From the Sun, Science, Sun Science, Space Weather, Solar Storms, Tom Bogdan, Denver News

It’s getting increasingly stormy on the sun and that’s likely to cause problems on earth. A center in Boulder tracks solar activity 24/7 and sound...

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Northwest Power Surplus May Halt Wind Energy

AP | By TIM FOUGHT | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Bonneville Power Administration, Wind Power, Electricity, Portland-General-Electric, Wind Farm, Columbia River Gorge, Electric Grid, Power Grid Wind Energy, Wind Energy, Clean Energy, Pacific Northwest Wind Farm, Green News

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The manager of most of the electricity in the Pacific Northwest is running such a surplus of power from hydroelectric dams that it p...

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The Secret Sauce of Economic Growth

Michael Moynihan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Electricity, Alternative Energy, Economic Development, Oil, Clean Energy, Economic Growth, Tesla, Green News
Michael Moynihan

Right now the biggest clusters of clean energy activity are not in the United States. They are in Germany, Japan and China. But it is not too late for us to get a healthy share of the pie.

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How Crowdsourcing Can Help Clean Energy

Beth Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Power Grid, General Electric, Crowdsourcing, Promethean Power, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Venture Capital, Technology, Crowdsourcing-Technology, Solar Power, Small Business America, Securerf, Business News
Beth Comstock

Ideas spring from the gaps between the technology of today and the needs of tomorrow. In the global energy economy, we face a chasm between nascent id...

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The Solar 'Katrina' Storm That Could Take Our Power Grid Out For Years

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Hydroelectric, Kappenam, Surge Protector, Sunblock, Katrina, Utilities, Aftermath, Electromagnetic Pulse, Electricity, Solar Flares, Sun, Blackout, Nuclear Power, Books News
Lawrence E. Joseph

John Kappenman is determined to save civilization from the mother of all blackouts. If he fails, we may well suffer on a scale that makes even World Wars seem trivial in comparison.

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Styleite's Power Grid Ranks Top Designers, Models, Fashion Writers And More

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Styleite, Power Grid, Styleite Power Grid, Style News

Styleite.com launched earlier this morning and with it the Power Grid, a feature that's made its partner site Mediaite.com popular. Styleite has ranke...

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The Need for Enemies

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, National Academy of Sciences, Power Grid, Defense, Solar, Enemies, Katrina, Jobs, Obama, Levees, Electromagnetic Pulse, 2012, Politics News
Lawrence E. Joseph

What is it about our need for enemies? Has the American consciousness been shaped, even warped, by decades of fighting off the Nazis, the Communists, and now, Muslim extremists?

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Passing Into the Energy Cloud

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Magnetic Field, Nature, Nasa, Apocalypse, Obama-National-Academy-of-Sciences, Voyager, Energy Cloud, Ecological-Catastrophe, 2012, Sun, Healthy Living News
Lawrence E. Joseph

Our space neighborhood is changing, and not for the better. We need to take precautions to defend our home planet, our way of life, starting right now.

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2012, Seriously

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Power Grid, Nasa, Solar Storms, 2012, Power Outages, Mayan Legend, Apocalypes 2012, Apocalypse, 2012 Movie, End of the World, Books News
Lawrence E. Joseph

As author of "Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End" (Broadway/Random House, 2007) I am frequently asked what I thought of "2012," the Columbia Pictures film directed by Roland Emmerich.

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Post-Cronkite Journos: The Battle of Advocates, Narcissists & Sleuths

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalists, Power Grid, Dan Abrams, Walter Cronkite, President Obama, Wilshire and Washington, Narcissism, Ted Johnson, Media, Rachel Sklar, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein, Mom Jeans, Mediaite, Media News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Mediaite.com's Power Grid uses an algorithm to determine the top voices in 12 different media categories. Does the feature inspire a narcissistic-type of journalism, with people trying to game the system?

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Energy Department To Award $3.3B For Smart Power Grids

Business First of Louisville: | Vandana Sinha | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Electricity, Energy Department, Evolving Energy Tech, Smart Grid, Environment, Green, Power-Grid, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Smart-Grid, Global Warming, Green News

The Department of Energy said it plans to unlock $3.3 billion in federal stimulus grants, of up to $200 million apiece, to companies and utilities to ...

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Before Green Energy, US Power Grid Needs Work

New York Times | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Power Grid, Wind Power, Energy, Infrastructure, Environment, Green Energy, Solar Power, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Adding electricity from the wind and the sun could increase the frequency of blackouts and reduce the reliability of the nation's electr...

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