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energy storage the holy grail?
Energy storage is often called the holy grail of renewable energy. The problem with the "grail" language is that the grail was never located. At least not with a compelling business case.[read more]
Talking Wind Energy and Analytics with New GE Renewables Head Anne McEntee
Anne McEntee
Newly appointed GE Renewable Energy VP Anne McEntee, who will run the world leading wind division, met with a group of reporters to talk shop at Windpower 2013, the industry’s annual conclave.[read more]
Utility’s Big Data Challenge
To understand the scale of the task facing utilities, consider the impact of smart meters. Typically, standard analog meters were read once a month, for a single number representing energy consumed. A digital smart meter, by comparison, might relay a variety of indicators every 15 minutes or more frequent. Those updates pile up fast, to 35,000 per year. If not properly managed, the 3,000-fold increase in data volume could be overwhelming.[read more]
Sustainability, social media and big data
The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before.Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter announced last week that Twitter is now publishing 500 million tweets per day. Not alone is Twitter publishing...[read more]
Energy ‘Datapalooza’ draws more apps; know the cost of that old refrigerator?
Government and private partners are releasing new data sets and application programming interfaces, or APIs, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Data Initiative. This initiative is modeled on similar datathons in healthcare and public safety to innovate with publicly available data.[read more]
Big Data for the Smart Grid
Big data is one of the buzz words tossed around in Smart Grid circles these days, and it will be the subject of discussion at a session I’ll host later this week. What exactly is it? Like the universe itself, Smart Grid data is in an expansion phase. Big Smart Grid data consists of large datasets enabled by the Smart Grid...[read more]
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