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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.

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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.

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The Power of the Smart Grid

If implemented by 2030, a smart grid could have incredible effects on our energy use and carbon emissions.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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Yesterday, Obama announced he'd be giving $3.4 billion in stimulus funds to projects aimed at modernizing our outdated energy grid.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...

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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...

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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...