(Reference: http://www.energy.gov)
WASHINGTON, DC – Today at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu highlighted the Department of Energy’s continued commitment to partnering with Native Americans to support the development of clean energy projects on tribal lands that will help reduce energy use, limit carbon pollution, and create new jobs for tribal communities across the country.
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At the opening of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar Decathlon on the National Mall, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced up to $87 million will be made available to support the development of new solar energy technologies and the rapid deployment of available carbon-free solar energy systems. Of this funding, $50 million comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The 47 projects with universities, electric power utilities, DOE’s national laboratories, and local governments have been selected to support use of solar technologies in U.S. cities, help address technical challenges, ensure reliable connectivity with the electrical grid, and train a new generation of solar workers to install and maintain solar energy systems. These projects will help speed adoption of solar energy nationwide, while supporting development of a skilled workforce, and continuing to pursue new scientific breakthroughs to increase the efficiency and lower the cost of solar technologies.
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(Reference: Metering.Com)
A coalition of 25 local, national and global organizations under the leadership of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), University of California, San Diego and CleanTECH San Diego has been established to transform the San Diego region’s electrical grid into a digital smart grid.
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(Reference: CleanTech San Diego)
Joining the membership roster to CleanTech San Diego is PCN Technology. Their Grid MicroCircuit™ solutions enable the intelligent energy grid. PCN’s embedded Grid MicroCircuit solutions operate on active and passive energy grids already available within devices, machines, equipment, systems, subsystems, & infrastructure. PCN Technology solutions are comprised of hardware, software and reference designs for use on energy grids for data communication, networking, energy efficiency and smart grid applications.
September 2, 2009
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) and ZigBee Alliance today announced that the two organizations have established a formal liaison agreement between the two groups, making ZigBee a member of DRSG, and linking their efforts to support the Smart Grid.
DRSG is the trade association for companies providing technologies, products and services in the demand response and smart grid areas. The ZigBee Alliance is a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications. The agreement provides for collaboration on promotion and advocacy related to development of smart grid technology policies.
“This is a great opportunity for both organizations and for their members,” said Dan Delurey, executive director of DRSG. “ZigBee is an active organization working to introduce new technology into the marketplace and we look forward to helping it keep its members aware of how evolving policy developments in Washington may affect market requirements for the smart grid. Also, we are confident that the expertise of the ZigBee Alliance will provide DRSG with a better understanding of technology developments that are occurring in the industry.”
“Our liaison agreement with DRSG will provide the ZigBee Alliance with keen insight on smart grid activities and will help us ensure that ZigBee Smart Energy, our wireless home area network solution continues to be the leading choice for use with demand response and smart grid programs around North America,” said Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance. “We also look forward to being a resource to DRSG so that it can better represent the smart grid community as policy develops.”
