July 27, 2007
List of Smart Grid stocks to invest in:
ITIR- Itron makes the meters that will be the backbone of the smart grid.
TLVT- Telvent- smart grid..smart water…smart transport…smart pipeline. Not just a one horse play
ELON- Echelon- smart buildings
AMSC- American Superconducting Corp- Makes transmission lines more effective and efficient. They also have line technology that allows better integration of alternative fuels to the grid.
BCON- Beacon Power- their storage technology and flywheel technology and large demonstration project with huge upside profitability potential.
“Other articles in this series:
- Five clean transport stocks,
- Five Energy Efficiency stocks
- Five Electric Transmission Stocks.
- Two Landfill Gas and Three Geothermal Stocks
- Five Solar Stocks
… and as always invest at your own peril (ask me about my investment in Lehman Brothers and 3dfx and Worldcom.
July 27, 2009- The Philadelphia Navy Yard becoming a green experimental city
“, the Navy Yard is already becoming an energy campus where businesses, academics and Navy engineers congregate and share knowledge about power systems. They hope that new commercial ventures – spin-offs from the Navy’s research into alternative-energy sources or smart-grid technology – will emerge from such a creative environment. The energy-campus promoters are not thinking small. They liken the Navy facility to a national laboratory that can become a regional hub for related developments. They believe that energy-related research and development might one day do for Philadelphia what computers did for Silicon Valley.”
July 27, 2009- Another company another software breakthrough
At what point do we begin to discount all these companies that say they have the software solution to the smart grid. Here is another one. Maybe we need an unbiased Good Housekeeping seal to support the claims of these companies.
July 27, 2009- What is happening in your house at 1-4am and issues of privacy
An executive from the Boulder CO experiments reported at a conference that the utility found that the spike in electricity use of one particular house was the programmed heating of the hot tub and this reporter asks the question what right does the utility have to know this? I would think that the people would be pleased to know about this and ramp it down but this reported raises privacy issues. Utilities will have to deal with these issues if they want consumers to be engaged because the media will be spreading fears…it makes a good story.
July 27, 2009- 70% of electricity is used in Buildings
As we spend more money and time on Smart grid and residences it is easy to lose sight of (and you might not have known) that we are only going after an energy savings of 5% (estimated low hanging fruit savings from adoption of residential smart grid technology) . But residential is only 30% of all electricity use. Why aren’t we paying attention to that 70%?
Do the math 5% of 30% is only 1.5% of total electricity use. How much are we spending to save 1.5%? Am I missing something?
July 27, 2009- Another this is the Smart grid article,,,
…but it is a good concise summery.
http://www.petroleumworld.com/sunopf09072601.htm
July 27, 2009- Vampire energy use
“According to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the typical American home has 40 products constantly drawing power, and those products — when not in use — represent 10 percent of residential energy consumption”
You don’t need a smart grid to unplug all your chargers, appliances, etc and save considerable money on your bill. Some good tips in this piece. People just don’t realize that it adds up. And if you have a pool dump the pump and heating.
July 27, 2009- The Smart Grid and Electromagnetic Pulses!
This was a first one for me…the smart grid makes the electricity system MORE vulnerable to electromagnetic attacks.
One of our Representatives is quoted as saying.. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (Rep.-Md.), a former research scientist and engineer who has worked in the past on projects for NASA and the military. All one needs to wreak some serious EMP damage, he charges, is a sea-worthy steamer, $100,000 to buy a scud-missile launcher, and a crude nuclear weapon. Then fling the device high into the air and detonate its warhead. Such a system might not paralyze the entire United States, he concedes. ‘But you could shut down all of New England. And if you missed by 100 miles, it’s as good as a bulls eye.”
Now this is fear raising of the highest order…kudos.
July 27, 2009- Since the world is coming to an end anyway at least get a 4 minute smile…the wedding entry dance to end all wedding entry dances…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEh3Z56v8UQ&feature=haxa_popt00us00
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