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  • "SCADA and Me": An unlikely picturebook for kids, industrial primer for adults

    Rob Lee got the idea for SCADA and Me - a barely-technical picturebook that introduces industrial control systems to novices - from a group that should have already known what SCADA systems were but didn't, and who afterwards suggested that he write up a non-technical handout to distribute at his next briefing.

    Written by Tim Greene27 Sept. 13 17:13
  • Dodo adapts to market with business intelligence

    Dodo has adjusted marketing and its range of energy and telecom services over the last three years based on insights learned from a business intelligence (BI) platform, according to M2 Telecommunications consumer director, Boris Rozenvasser.

    Written by Adam Bender13 Sept. 13 09:45
  • Cisco acquires IT energy management technology

    Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held JouleX, a developer of enterprise IT energy management tools, for $107 million in cash.

    Written by Jim Duffy29 May 13 16:13
  • Heat Meter measures energy use in real time

    A new, Wi-Fi connected device called the Heat Meter allows homeowners to track propane, natural gas or oil use in real time and compare their home's efficiency with others in the area.

    Written by Nick Barber12 March 13 17:07
  • Malware infects US power facilities through USB drives

    Two U.S. power companies reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).

    Written by Grant Gross15 Jan. 13 21:38
  • Study: Smart energy IT market growing quickly

    Revenue in the IT segment of the world's smart electricity delivery industry is likely to have grown by 23 percent, to US$9.4 billion, in 2012, in support of smart grid deployments, according to a new study.

    Written by Grant Gross15 Jan. 13 20:49
  • Assessing the commercial implications of the carbon tax

    Calculating the impact of a carbon tax is relatively easy if you are one of the 500 ‘polluters’; it is more problematic if you are one of the remaining 2 million Australian businesses

    Written by Morris Kaplan01 March 12 10:39
  • Google invests in more renewable energy production capacity

    Google has paid US$94 million for a stake in four photovoltaic power generation projects around Sacramento, California, bringing its total investment in renewable energy generation this year to $880 million, it announced Tuesday.

    Written by Peter Sayer21 Dec. 11 03:17
  • Japan group to build smart power grids that treat energy like network data

    Using concepts from IT and networking, a Japanese consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that will handle power the way the Internet handles data, using "routers" and "service providers" to efficiently manage and direct the flow of electricity.

    Written by Jay Alabaster12 Dec. 11 18:10
  • While we wait for cold fusion, let's update the ECPA

    Well, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/101411-backspin.html">last week's Backspin</a> on Rossi's E-Cat power generator was fun. Between that column and <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/">a blog posting</a> I made on the topic over at Forbes, I've had more than 100 comments and an insane number of page views which all goes to show just what a hot topic alternative energy is.

    Written by Mark Gibbs24 Oct. 11 15:29
  • Cheap power: An overnight revolution

    Every now and then along comes a technology that is revolutionary and changes everything. But a very few of these new technologies cause fast change. Mostly they seep out of the lab, into the arms of early adopters, and then ooze out into the world in general.

    Written by Mark Gibbs15 Oct. 11 04:51
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