Just how much of the process of creating, distributing and integrating solar power can be automated?
That is the question that Siemens seeks to answer in this video, which talks up its lengthy experience in innovation through partnerships and its history in integrating supply, manufacturing and distribution chains. Keep reading →
As natural gas becomes an increasingly popular resource for baseload electrical power, experts have debated the extent and availability of American supply.
In this video, one of Chevron’s seismic specialist Julia Baggs explains how the company uses technology to locate underground stores of natural gas and oil and decide where to drill exploration wells. Keep reading →
Smart phones seem to be able to do almost anything these days, even managing electricity consumption.
In this video, Constellation Energy shows the mobile application of its web-based VirtuWatt platform, a demand response technology that allows for two-way communication between electricity producers and consumers. Keep reading →
Using natural gas in enhanced oil recovery is far from new, but it does have a new lease on life in recent months as crude oil prices have remained strong.
Domestic oil production is on the rise, though it would be hard to know that natural gas had a role in the increase by listening to the public debate. Keep reading →
Recycling of nuclear fuel is a major issue in the industry in the US, where concerns about safely disposing of the spent rods have resulted in political deadlock.
Though uranium is well-known for its radioactivity which creates heat and ultimately electricity in a nuclear power plant, this video from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) explains the role of a lesser known radioactive element, plutonium. Keep reading →
As utilities crank up generators to supply demand for summer’s peak loads of electricity, some companies are making money by turning off their air-conditioners and helping utilities shave off the peaks.
In this video, international-technology giant IBM explains how it acts like a city by buying power from utilities and then not using that power during peak demand times. Keep reading →
No one really knows when the wind will blow.
But with increasing numbers of wind turbines being installed in the United States, the intermittent nature of wind power is becoming a serious challenge. Keep reading →
As temperatures soar this summer and customers turn up air conditioning units, utilities are working to raise awareness about saving power through demand response programs and smart meters.
In this video, Duke Energy–which serves North and South Carolina as well as parts of the Midwest–uses cartoon imagery to illustrate how it is incorporating renewable to handle peak demands, how demand response (residential energy management systems) helps the utility quickly shed load, and how intelligent sensors and communication nodes on transmission lines help the grid be smarter and use energy more efficiently. Keep reading →
The Siemens Green City Index has highlighted some of the most creative city-led initiatives to reduce consumption of energy and electricity, green city spaces, and change the way consumers think about energy.
This video shows some of the country’s major cities in action as they work to limit energy use and promote efficiency. Keep reading →
Development of a new urban strategy is part of the World Bank’s new energy strategy as well as its performance review for this year.
The institution worried that the sheer number of requests coming from the bank on its variety of strategic updates would overburden its own staff as well as stakeholders, but in an effort to create a truly interlinked strategy the funding organization has decided to move ahead. Working with energy firms and the urban sector to be sure they leverage data and strategy synergies will be a major part of that effort, Evans said. Keep reading →
