The United Nations Climate Change Conference is convening in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 to December 10 to discuss reduction strategies for global warming and funding for programs developing nations can put in place to mitigate the impacts of climate changes. Can the Smart Grid solve climate change? No, but it can reduce the amounts [...]
The Department of Energy lists active consumer participation as one of the most important characteristics of a Smart Grid. This takes shape in two forms – electricity production and electricity consumption. One of the many benefits of the Smart Grid is its ability to integrate renewable energy sources into large scale electricity production. Another is [...]
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that it was taking steps to enforce Energy Efficiency standards. This announcement and all resulting enforcement actions should be applauded, since such actions get to the heart of concerns about the viability of current standards and can restore trust in those standards. It also implicitly acknowledges a statement [...]