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First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 Documents

Green:Net Startup Launchpad Deadline This Friday!

The deadline to submit an application for our Green:Net launchpad is just around the corner — this Friday at 5PM! If you’re part of a new startup that leverages information technology — the Internet, computing and communication networks — to help remake ... [Published 6 hours ago by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Launch Pad, Startup, Deadline

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents

Mainichi Shimbun

Nissan LEAF to Sell for Under $45K: Report

Nissan, one of the automakers betting most heavily on the nascent electric vehicle market, will price its upcoming LEAF plug-in sedan in the range of 3.5 million to 4 million yen (about $38,600-$44,100) in Japan, according to a Mainichi Shimbun report ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Nissan LEAF, Mainichi Shimbun, Electric Vehicle

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Google Inc

California’s Smart Meter Battle: Google vs. Utilities

There’s a battle looming in California over smart meters and energy prices. Google says the state should require its big utilities to give near real-time pricing information to every smart meter -enabled customer by the end of next year. California’s ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Google Inc, Smart Grid, San Diego Gas & Electric Company

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 Documents

Aurora Biofuels Bags $15M Series C for Algae Tech

Algae into fuels: It might be one of the great green hopes for weaning ourselves off fossil fuels , but it sure won’t come cheap. Aurora Biofuels, an Alameda, Calif.-based startup using biotechnology to create algae strains for biodiesel production, ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Algae, Aurora BioFuels, Startup, Robert Walsh

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 Documents

AT&T Inc

AT&T Launches Smart Charger to Fight Vampire Power, Finally

Finally a reason not to complain about AT&T . The phone company says it will start selling a smart charger in May — dubbed the AT&T ZERO charger and made by Super Communications — that eliminates vampire power (wasted standby power). The concept is ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: AT&T Inc, Cellphone, Climate Group, Carbon Footprint

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Toyota Motor Corporation

3 Lessons for Green Cars From Toyota on Money, Money, Money

Managing perception is nothing new for alt-fuel vehicles: Part of what made startup Tesla Motors so high-profile for such a small-scale, young venture in its early days was that it refuted the longstanding perception of electric cars as slow, utterly ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Toyota Motor Corporation, Tesla Motors Inc, Startup, Battery, Fiscal Year

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Solyndra Generated Over $100M in Revenue Last Year

Solyndra, the thin film solar startup that filed for an IPO back in December has updated its latest financial figures for the fiscal year that ended January 2, 2010 in an amended S-1 filing on Tuesday. According to the document Solyndra brought ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Solyndra, Fiscal Year, IPO, Phoenix Solar

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

A Next-Gen Sodium Grid Battery Outta ARPA-E

Japan is the official leader when it comes to using its own sodium sulfur (NAS) batteries for energy storage on the power grid. There are close to 270 MW of NAS batteries on the grid in Japan and Japan’s NGK Insulators is a NAS battery market king, ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Battery, Sodium, ARPA-E

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Daily Sprout

BYD Backs Off Electric Car Goals: The South China Morning Post reports that Warren Buffett-backed BYD Co. has given up on plans to mass produce its all-electric vehicle in China by the middle of this year. “The company will make 100 E6 electric cars,” ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Electric Car, BYD Company Ltd, Amsterdam, Wind Project, South China Morning Post

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 3 Documents

Why Google and Grid Net Should Team Up On the Smart Grid

Here’s two unconventional players that could make an influential but unusual team in terms of open standards and innovation for the smart grid: Google and software maker Grid Net. OK, hear me out. As Grid Net’s new Chief Strategy Officer Andres ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Smart Grid, Google Inc, Broadband, WiMax

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Trilliant’s All-In-One Smart Grid Network

In the world of smart grid, there tends to be two kinds of networks — short range local area networks (LANs) that connect neighborhoods of smart meters together, and bigger-pipe “backhaul” wide-area networks (WANs) to carry that collected data back ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Eric Miller, Smart Grid, WiMax

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Digital Lumens Takes a Cue from Smart Grid Tech for LEDs

If you want a smart lighting system that helps cut energy use and maximizes efficiency, you gotta lose the dumb fixtures and go with tech that has computer intelligence written into its DNA. That’s the premise of Digital Lumens, a 2-year-old startup ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Earth2Tech]

Entities: Smart Grid, Light-Emitting Diode, Black Coral, DNA, Startup

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