Articles Paving the Way to Smarter Energy Use: Why Google.org is Supporting Policy Reforms Michael TerrellFeb 13, 2013
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Articles Why It's Time for You to Demand a Smart Meter Developing a smart grid would save consumers money and conserve energy. But utility companies are dragging their feet.Sarah Laskow17 Jun, 2011
Articles The Military-Approved Portable Clean Energy Kit Whatever you make of the military, it's pushing innovation in clean energy, and this new Mobile Renewable Power Station is leading the way.Ben Jervey09 Jun, 2011
Design The Power of the Smart Grid If implemented by 2030, a smart grid could have incredible effects on our energy use and carbon emissions.Oliver Munday02 Feb, 2011
Articles Smart Grid Security: Keeping Hackers Out of Your Power Meter The smart grid has the potential to revolutionize how we use electricity. But there's a catch: We need to make it invulnerable to hackers.Ariel Schwartz29 Oct, 2010
Articles How to Hook Up Your Home to the Smart Grid Today This is your house on the smart grid. What the future of home appliances will look like when we're managing our electricity better.Ariel Schwartz22 Oct, 2010
Articles Europe Could Use 100 Percent Renewable Electricity by 2050 According to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Europe and North Africa could get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources...Andrew Price01 Apr, 2010
Articles Could Our Grid Handle 1 Million New Plug-in Cars? If we start switching over to plug-in electric vehicles, that will represent a huge change in our use of electricity, and there are questions...Andrew Price27 Mar, 2010
Articles Keeping Energy Use Down with the Joneses A few utility companies have been trying pilot programs that show customers how their energy use compares with their that of their neighbors. It...Andrew Price24 Feb, 2010
Articles How Much Would a "Smart Grid" Reduce Carbon? There's been lots of talk about building a "smart grid"-a new energy transmission infrastructure that would cut down on wasted energy, reduce...Andrew Price04 Feb, 2010
Articles Here's Where That Smart Grid Money Is Going Yesterday, Obama announced he'd be giving $3.4 billion in stimulus funds to projects aimed at modernizing our outdated energy grid. The goal...Andrew Price30 Oct, 2009
Articles This Week at TreeHugger: Atwood on a Bleak Future, Smart Grids Go Big Brother, and the War on Pedestrians Heats Up This week, TreeHugger spoke to Margaret Atwood, wondered what smart grids will mean for our privacy, learned some new ways of...Alex Pasternack22 Oct, 2009
Articles Home Improvement Why the problem of fixing our buildings is so vague-and what we can do about it We're hardwired to address the smaller problems that we can...Cliff Kuang06 Jun, 2009