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Smart Grid, Smart City? How Networked Streetlights Will Make Cities Smarter
In the early days of the smart grid, companies thought about connectivity from a device point of view. They would focus on bringing intelligence to a single device -- like a meter -- and develop a control platform for that discrete piece of...
Is Solar Energy Prepared to Enter a Post-Subsidy World? [VIDEO]
Let's start out with a fact: the free market for energy is a myth. Every country uses subsidies in some way to encourage production and dictate consumption of different forms of energy. According to the International Monetary Fund, global...
Portraits of the Solar Energy Market: How Key States Are Faring
By Stephen Lacey, Herman Trabish and Eric WesoffThe GTM Solar Summit kicked off yesterday with a pre-conference look at how states' solar markets are faring. With more than 3.1 gigawatts of capacity installed last year, the U.S. market seems healthy...
Renewables Aren’t Yet Cleaning Up the Global Energy System
Looking for a reason to be cynical? You’ve found it: Dirty energy is winning. That's the conclusion of a new report from the International Energy Agency looking at the carbon intensity of the global energy system. Despite big drops in...
California Has More Solar Energy Jobs Than Actors
Last year, the Solar Foundation issued a census of the solar industry showing 119,016 jobs spread around the country. Today the organization has updated that resource with an interactive map detailing where around the country those solar jobs are...
NOAA: 2012 Was Officially The Warmest Year On Record For The U.S.
Last year was officially the hottest ever recorded for the lower-48 states. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tallied weather and temperature data for 2012, and found that the year was both the warmest and the...
