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Upcoming Green Events: CES, Greener Gadets

Happy Holidays everyone. Hopefully you’ve gotten your shopping out of the way, and if not then you have my condolences. Now, on to some news. It looks like there are going to be two green events coming up in the next few months.

The first is the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show [...]

Leasing Residential Solar Power

If you have friends or family in Colorado, then you might have already heard of companies like SunRun. SunRun is a California-based home solar-service company that recently expanded its market to serve Colorado. Already providing service in Arizona, California, and Massachusetts, SunRun allows home-owners to lease solar panels for as low as $1,000 [...]

New technology: Organic LEDs

CEATEC, the largest consumer electronics show in Japan, concluded this weekend. Galleries of innovative new products can be found at various places on the internet, but the one thing that caught my eye were the OLED panels.

An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) is named as such because the substances used to generate light are [...]

Networking the Smart Grid

“In many ways we see this scenario as analogous to the birth of the Internet”.  That is a quote from Cisco’s website where they are discussing their recent venture into smart grid architecture. Cisco is better known as a manufacturer of network equipment and seller of a variety of network-related software products. [...]

Smart Grids: Where are we now?

Have you heard about smart grids? If you’ve been paying attention to the energy policy initiatives from President Obama, you might have noticed that these policies favor technology solutions like this one. The term smart grid generally means an electricity grid that’s been enhanced with digital technology to provide manageable, reliable service, supplied [...]