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Smart Grid Spending To Plateau at $35 Billion in 3 Years

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by zzzack The smart grid has been a lumbering but steady and inevitable presence in the utility industry, with a speedy uptake in the number of start-ups interested in creating everything from energy storage technology to user dashboards for home energy consumption and a somewhat slower uptake in the number of smart grid pilot projects popping up nationwide. Less than two years ago it was expected to grow to at least $65 billion by 2013 . Cisco has … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Prominent Green Activists Ask Obama To Step Up Climate Efforts Now

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via flickr On Friday, notable environmentalists Al Gore, Fredd Krupp, and others sent a letter to President Obama warning him that time is running short this year to pass a bill that caps carbon pollution and asking him to personally intervene in the sausage making process to help get something done. The Senate’s leadership has not yet settled on a bill to get behind, with competing bills looking only at the utility industry, responsible for about 40 percent of US emissions, while others want an economy-wide solution. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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