Category: Technology / Software
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Power line communications now being used in more and more scenarios
I had a nice catch-up call with Mike Holt the other day – Mike is Semitech Semiconductor’s VP Sales and Marketing and we had previously talked last August. Mike was bringing me up to speed on what has been going on with Semitech in the last five months. Semitech make semiconductor chips specially designed for…
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SAP’s Palo Alto energy efficiency and CO2 reductions
As mentioned previously, I was in Santa Clara and Palo Alto last week for a couple of SAP events. At these events SAP shared some of its carbon reduction policies and strategies. According to SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf, the greatest bang for buck SAP is achieving comes from the deployment of telepresence suites.…
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Energy efficient supercomputers from IBM!
Photo credit Argonne National Laboratory Supercomputers are particularly fast computers (often made up of thousands of “off the shelf” computers) typically used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as climate research, molecular modelling, research into nuclear fusion, etc. The Green 500 is a ranking of the most energy efficient supercomputers measured in Floating Point Operations per…
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No, energy is not too cheap!
Is energy too cheap to motivate consumers to change their habits and use less?
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Smart Grid Technology conference
I attended the Smart Grid Technology conference in London last week and there were a number of interesting themes which became apparent. The main theme to emerge was the question of how utilities could engage the residential customer. This is good news – the first step on the road to recovery is […]
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Apple just got a whole lot Greener!
Photo credit hildgrim Like Symantec, Apple too have a significant Green story that they are not telling – and it just got a lot Greener! Why do I say they have a Green story in the first place? Aren’t they just constantly exhorting us to buy their products? How is that sustainable? Well, let me…
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British Gas launch version 2 of their iPhone app – nice but non-inclusive!
British Gas announced recently that they had updated their iPhone app to version 2. The original application, which was downloaded over 100,000 times, helped customers monitor energy use and submit meter readings to avoid estimated bills. In June alone over 18,000 meter readings were submitted using the app. With the new version customers can view…