Category: Trends & Concepts
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November chat with IBM’s Rich Lechner
Rich Lechner is IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment. He is a regular interviewee here where we discuss various matters related to energy and environment. This interview was recorded while I was at the SAP TechEd 2009 event in Vienna in a crowded interview room so I apologise in advance for the poorer than normal…
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(Lack of) Sustainability in the Mobile industry
(Lack of) Sustainability in the mobile phone industry View more documents from Tom Raftery. I realised recently that although I have referred to the talk I gave in Barcelona on Mobile Sustainability (for the Mobile 2.0 conference) in a couple of posts I never talked about the talk directly here, so now it is time…
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Guido Bartels of GridWise and IBM discusses Smart Grids with GreenMonk
Photo credit Ian Muttoo Guido Bartels is General Manager of IBM’s Global Energy and Utilities Industry. Guido leads IBM’s corporate initiative around building an ‘Intelligent Utility Network,’ IBM’s portfolio of offerings and capabilities for the Smart Grid. Guido is also a member of the Electricity Advisory Committee at Department of Energy, an organization whose mission…
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SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management tool could be a real game-changer!
Sustainability reporting is a bit all over the place. Standards, such as they are, are many, not widely agreed on, and are loosely observed. One of the better sustainability reports to emerge this year was SAP’s. Unlike the staid PDF documents most companies put out, SAP’s is a website which allows reasonably deep linking (…
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Never run a conference at a venue that can’t provide water dispensing machines, instead of bottled water
I attend a lot of conferences. The two most recent ones I was at were both run by SAP. The first was the International SAP for Utilities conference in Munich, the second was the SAP TechEd conference in Vienna. Both events were very interesting for a variety of reasons but both conferences left a nasty…
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Nice Dutch project using ‘waste’ heat and CO2 to increase greenhouse yields!
Photo credit przemion Came across a great story on pressreleasefinder today via Twitter about a project in the Netherlands called WarmCO2. What is WarmCO2? It is a project which takes residual heat and CO2 from Dutch fertiliser manufacturer Yara and using infrastructure supplied by partner company Visser & Smit Hanab, pipes them to vegetable…
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There’s gold in them thar bills!
Photo credit Urban Jacksonville The output from smart meters is incredibly granular. Far more so than is obvious from the smart meter output graph above. In conversations with Dr Monica Sturm (Director of Siemen’s Center of Competence, Metering Services) last November (2008) she confirmed to me that it is possible to identify individual devices in…