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• Are Smart Appliances Worth The Big Investment?

  
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  Is upping the intelligence of your home appliances worth the stress on your bank account? Ecosalon investigates smart appliances and help you decide. According to a 2012 poll from Pike Research, worldwide sales of smart appliances will reach 45 million by the end of the decade. Since most of us have kicked, ...
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• Seattle Trying Innovative Financing Model for Building Efficiency

  
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  Benjamin Romano Seattle’s municipal utility and the people behind one of the world’s most-efficient commercial buildings are trying to reinvent the business model for financing so-called deep energy efficiency improvements, which could generate hundreds of billions of dollars of construction activity and energy ...
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• “Occupy Your Home”: Confronting “Electro Pollution” and Smart Meter Toxification

  
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  By James F. TracyGlobal ResearchAn overwhelming majority of US and Canadian citizens are entirely unaware that an especially dangerous device has been attached to their homes. While installation of “smart meters” across North America has continued apace since 2009 the health effects such devices pose have yet to ...
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• Open Data Tourism

  
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  The new Open Data Tourism Hack at home initiative, part of the Open Cities project , aims to create apps to help cities manage the challenges of tourism . Prizes include €3000 in cash! It brings together two important themes of the smart city – open data and sensor networks – and uses them to help ...
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• 911 tech that locates cell phone users in buildings ready to go

  
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  The Federal Communications Commission today authorized the maker of an enhanced 911 technology to begin commercial operations despite claims that the system will interfere with wireless Internet Service Providers and smart grid applications. A company called NextNav and its subsidiary, Progeny, makes a system ...
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• Prepay Utility Customers Pay Electric Bill, Monitor Usage with Smart Phone

  
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  AT&T is offering a service for customers to pay their utility bills using smartphones, text messages, kiosks, the Internet or by phone. The application – PayGo from AT&T – will also allow customers to monitor and manage their energy consumption. AT&T will be the sole US provider for PayGo’s utility ...
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• FirstNet’s Conundrum

  
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  FirstNet wants to build a dedicated nationwide LTE network for first responders. First Net is a stand alone LTE network that largely uses commercial cellular components. It is expected to cost taxpayers upwards of $25 Billion, according to some estimates. But it’s all about the apps. Public service apps will ...
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• US Favors Net-Metering While Europe, Japan Like Feed-In-Tariffs

  
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  Recent developments in Virginia put a spotlight on feed-in tariffs (FITs), which are used to encourage deployment of renewable energy. In March, Dominion Virginia Power’s voluntary FIT for residential and commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) generators was approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission. ...
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• The Growing Threat Of Smart Meters

  
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  By Tom DeWeese ~ Sustainable Development is code for a policy designed to transform human society, essentially eliminating individual life decisions and replacing them with top – down, one-size-fits-all government control. In steady fashion, the agenda for this new policy, designed at the international level, ...
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• Case Study on International and Domestic Electricity Tariffs and Tariff Structures

  
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  Study about International and Domestic Electricity Tariffs and Tariff Structures Executive Summary : This report investigates the use of variable electricity tariffs as an incentive to generate demand response. Demand side response describes electricity consumers’ propensity to respond to variations in market ...
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• The power of data to transform our energy system for consumers

  
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  Please note: This post was co-written with Jon Dogterom , MaRS cleantech practice lead.  Travel the highways of Ontario and you will see solar panels on rooftops and wind turbines on the shores of lakes in numbers that can’t be ignored. Ontario’s energy industry is undergoing changes. Another ...
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• Case Study on Critical Peak Pricing Lowers Peak Demands and Electric Bills in South Dakota and Minnesota

  
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  Study about Critical Peak Pricing Lowers Peak Demands and Electric Bills in South Dakota and Minnesota Sioux Valley Energy (SVE) is an electric cooperative serving approximately 21,000 customers in seven counties in South Dakota and Minnesota. SVE’s Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) Advanced Metering ...
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• Smart Meters Not A Fan Favorite Among All Texans

  
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  In October, the city council of Brady, Texas voted unanimously to purchase advanced electric meters, known as smart meters, for the city-owned electric utility. But some residents resisted, and the smart meter vote played a large role in a recall of the city’s mayor and the electoral defeat of two council ...
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• Accenture to Help Energy Firm Update Meter Service

  
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  Accenture has won a multi-year contract to work with energy firm SSE as the utility seeks to improve marketing campaigns and field service productivity for its retail metering business. SSE... Read more »
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• Price rip-off by power providers deeply puzzling to experts

  
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  Mr Ben-David said the commission was surprised to find retailer margins had more than doubled in the past two years. "When, before input costs were driving increase, in the last two years retailer costs have been driving prices. Thats been an interesting shift in the market and its hard to explain in a ...
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• What technology is helping businesses to improve energy savings?

  
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  Greener Ideal Energy efficiency needs to be a priority for all businesses. This can have benefits for the environment and the running costs of a business. However, it is an area which requires continual review and action. It often begins with the little things; from carrying out an energy walk-round and identifying ...
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• Energy and Environment News Roundup – 5.21.13

  
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  A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world. EMISSIONS   South Korea may launch world’s most ambitious cap and trade market  (via CleanTechnica) Carbon capture faces scale dilemma  (via Reuters) UK unwraps energy-intensive industry carbon price ...
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• IBM to Help Water Utility Use Data Analytics for Supply Chain; Jon Bentley Comments

  
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  IBM has joined an alliance to help a private water utility company use big data analytics technology as it seeks to update the aging water and sewer networks in London... Read more »
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• National Grid Builds Hub for Smart Meter Pilot

  
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  As part of National Grid’s smart grid pilot, it will retrofit a 2,200-sq-foot space in Worcester, Mass., for a Sustainability Hub. National Grid’s $44 million pilot was approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities in August 2012, and the full pilot is projected to launch in early in 2014 with smart ...
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