Category: Trends & Concepts
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Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/25/2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: Six Infrastructure Projects to Save 1.3 Billion Gallons of Water in Australia Australia is no stranger to tight water supplies, and fortunately that means smart water conservation strategies are being devised all the time. Australia is leading the way in everything from strategies…
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Can Arqiva provide the Smart Grid communications infrastructure for Britain?
Photo credit Lee Jordan We had a really interesting Smart Grid related conversation with a company called Arqiva the other day. I hadn’t heard of Arqiva before but they are quite a significant player in communications infrastructure. They own or have exclusive marketing rights for 16,000 communication masts in UK – what they call vertical…
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GreenWave Reality’s new Energy Management Platform
GreenWave Reality are an energy management company who came out of stealth last week to announce they had just landed an $11m equity round and to announce its new Energy Management Platform (although EMP is an unfortunate acronym in this context!). The company’s executive team is made up mostly of former execs of Cisco’s Consumer…
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Understanding the Smart Grid – my TreeHugger interview
Jaymi Heimbuch contacted me recently to ask if I’d agree to be interviewed for a TreeHugger article she was planning to write on Smart Grids. “Love to”, I said. Jaymi sent on the questions, I replied and today she posted the interview on TreeHugger. Here are the questions and my answers: TH: What’s the biggest…
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SAP’s Peter Graf demo’ing SAP software on his iPad
While at the SapphireNow conference in Orlando, I had the opportunity to grab a quick chat with SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Peter Graf…