Businesses offer best path to money in smart grid

Dozens of companies are developing tools to get consumers involved in home energy management, but businesses are easier customers to serve, say smart-grid execs.

South Korean bus prototypes use road to recharge

Vehicles with sensor-driven magnetic devices on their underside suck up energy as they travel over the strips embedded just under the road surface.

Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT

This year’s MIT Energy conference provided showcase for energy entrepreneurs as investors and executives grappled with how to make giant energy business cleaner.

Europe ’supergrid’ hopefuls cast fate to wind

The Friends of the Supergrid group of companies says that tying together offshore wind farms would compensate for the variability of wind power.

Will ‘fun factor’ or mandates drive electric car sales?

The first wave of electric cars are targeting consumers willing to pay a premium for a greener machine, but government mandates to get them on the road are also needed, say experts at MIT Energy conference.

A week off the grid and in touch with energy

CNET’s Martin LaMonica spends some time visiting an off-grid, solar-powered resort, a place where you’re keenly aware of where your energy and water come from.

IBM banks on China’s smart-grid efforts

Big Blue, which counts China’s leading power grid operator as one of its customers, unveils an Energy and Utilities Solutions Lab in Beijing.

Turning smartphones into air quality monitors

Intel Labs is showing off technology that would allow consumers to collect and analyze environmental data and then share it over the Internet.

Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

Toyota’s not-so-hot hybrid hatchbacks

Toyota launches the Auris HSD Hybrid and the Lexus CT 200h hybrid at the 2010 Geneva auto show.

Originally posted at Geneva Auto Show 2010

Toyota’s not-so-hot hybrid hatchbacks

Toyota launches the Auris HSD Hybrid and the Lexus CT 200h hybrid at the 2010 Geneva auto show.

Originally posted at Geneva Auto Show 2010