Broadband service providers — both telcos and cable firms — could make a push into the home energy management market before the New Year’s ball ushers in 2010, according to indications… Read more »
The market for home automation technology is kind of like recycling: Many talk about the benefits, but a lot fewer end up participating. That’s always been the problem with home automation… Read more »
At the AlwaysOn Going Green conference this week executives from smart grid firms indicated that they’ve been watching a bubble growing dangerously large. But the smart-grid space is a big one… Read more »
Earlier this week our favorite green IT research guru Jonathan Koomey delivered a look at the carbon savings of digital music downloads vs the traditional CD distribution process, and a couple… Read more »
If you pay attention to the energy sector, then you’ve witnessed the recent parade of home energy management software launched by startups, huge IT firms and veteran electrical meter companies. With… Read more »
Humans might not seem naturally energy efficient — after all, your teenage son’s only got three energy states: sleep, eat and Grand Theft Auto. But we humans have actually evolved to… Read more »
This week, SAP took a surprisingly early step into the nascent carbon management market: it purchased the young (and relatively unknown in the broader software industry business) carbon management startup Clear… Read more »
A buildout of a smarter power grid in the U.S. could be one of the largest creators of wealth in the decade. According to the Edison Electric Institute, it’ll take at… Read more »
The power of cloud computing can offer web companies access to a massive amount of Internet infrastructure and services on demand. But can it also make computing and the Internet more… Read more »