Tag: energy efficiency
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Current Cost energy meter reviewed
I emailed Chris Dalby of Current Cost a question about their devices a few weeks ago. Chris, not only answered my question but also offered to send me one of their energy monitors to try for myself! I love my Current Cost Envi 128. It is incredibly straightforward to setup – […]
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“The face of the Smart Grid will be paper!”
Photo credit Tom Raftery We had a briefing from a company called Opower the other day. We take lots of briefings but this one struck a different chord straight away when Ogi Kavazovic, Opower’s Sr. Director of Marketing and Strategy who was giving the briefing, said Opower is “one of the few new companies in…
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Just how green is cloud computing?
Cloud computing may not be as Green as you think. I mentioned previously that I gave a keynote presentation at the Green IT Summit in Dublin last week. In the question and answers session after the talk, Sean Baker asked about cloud computing and whether I thought companies using cloud computing weren’t simply outsourcing their…
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TrickleStar demo’s their energy saving devices
I attended the Smart Grids Europe Conference 2010 in Amsterdam last week. One of the people displaying there was Thomas Joergensen of TrickleStar. TrickleStar are not a Smart Grid company per se, what they offer instead are devices to cut down on energy consumption in the home. As such, their clients are utility companies who…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/19/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Nissan: 500,000 Electric Cars by 2012 – News – Automotive Fleet Nissan is planning for a production capacity of 500,000 Leaf electric cars in North America, Japan and Europe by 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported. tags: nissan leaf, nissan, greennumbers, electric cars, electric vehicles Carbon capture storage will…
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NightWatchman saving energy
Following on from my earlier post about the importance of turning things off, we had a briefing the other day from a company called 1E. 1E entered the power management space about 10 years ago when they wrote NightWatchman. NightWatchman is a PC power management application which aims to reduce the energy wasted by computers…
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Forget mobile phone chargers – they are not the problem!
I participated in the recent IBM Global Eco Jam and there were some fantastic discussions there. One of the discussions surprised me though – people were still talking about unplugging mobile phone chargers as if that was a significant problem. It is not. On the contrary, it is a dangerous distraction. Watch the video above.…