A colleague sent me this piece on the roadblocks that the utilities are throwing up to impede distributed generation. He notes, “Everyone will decide where they come down on these issues, but the utility industry is now using a monopoly position …
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Allocating funds for sustainable progress is fast becoming a mandatory survival parameter for companies worldwide. With the climate change concerns mounting heavily by drastic weather conditions (consider the polar vortex), companies are realizing that they should shift to the green …
A very senior businessman I’ve known for a long while has asked me to serve as a panelist for a conference his group is putting on next September in San Diego. He writes, “I assume (your expertise) falls into two …
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I just got off the phone with my mother, who is in the process of moving to Kauai, Hawaii. She laughed about how, though I will certainly visit, I would hate living there, as isolated as it is from cultural …
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Renewable energy is one of the few eco-friendly ways of powering homes and saving on overall energy bills. Solar energy leads the charge when it comes to generating green energy, helping homeowners control electricity costs and contributing towards the ongoing …
As I mentioned, the video-taped sessions on the main stage at the ARPA-e show are online. I keep returning mentally to the talk on the future of the grid that featured David Crane, CEO of NRG Energy, the second-largest power …
I was deeply disappointed that a family matter forced me to skip what is most certainly the world’s single best conference on energy innovation: the ARPA-e (Advanced Research Projects Agency – energy) show in Washington, DC. We’re talking about a) …
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Many companies both large and small have been successfully saving money after becoming more environmentally friendly, and, in today’s uneasy and somewhat lean economic times, being a little more financially responsible will do wonders for the inherent success of your …
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One thinks of Apple CEO Tim Cook as being an extremely calm person, but he drew a hard line against a conservative faction of shareholders who complained that the company should focus entirely on its bottom line, and knock off its …
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At last year’s 35th reunion of my college class, I accepted the job of the co-class secretary, meaning that I took on the responsibility of encouraging my classmates to submit entries for publication in the school newspaper. Insofar as I …
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