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It is the mantra of the new economy, as acknowledgment spreads that invaluable lessons and unanticipated knowledge gains can occur even when projects don’t work. That lesson is much easier to learn when starting up a new networking site with a handful of employees than it is in the energy business, where research that ends in failure can cost millions of dollars at least. Keep reading →
The massive floods in the Midwest in the past month have been devastating in many ways, but one thing Midwesterners won’t have to worry about is generating electricity from their coal-fired power plants. Inventories at plants along the river are high, limiting the impact from potential interuptions to barging down the river from coal producing states like West Virginia and Indiana to coal consuming states like Kentucky and Tennessee. Keep reading →
Customers are mostly ignoring it. Utilities are largely drowning in it. Technology firms are trying to parse it.
Electricity usage data lies at the heart of efforts to remake the US energy sector, and smart meters that enable more-detailed usage data production are actually a challenge for both the customers trying to understand their power bills and can complicate the efforts of generators accustomed to blunt tools when managing complex and delicate generation infrastructure. Keep reading →
The world’s top #energy consumer is #China, which surpasses that of the U.S. by 19 percent! http://bit.ly/kJ7s9O @planet_forward
Siemens is looking to hire more than 3,000 workers over the next several months, and many of their ideal candidates are experienced, recent college grads, Lisa Johnson Mandel reports on AOL Jobs.
The international electronics and engineering company is also launching internship programs aimed at producing qualified workers who can be fast-tracked into leadership positions once they graduate. Keep reading →
Consolidation continues in the natural gas industry as companies with access to funding leverage their position in new markets through both acquisition and organic growth.
Natural gas assets are still fairly priced for now in most North American producing regions, Rockwater Energy Solutions Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer Holli Nichols told Breaking Energy. Her Houston-based firm is planning to grow by acquisition and organic growth in North America over the next few years, before turning to international markets. Keep reading →
How much data is too much data?
Utilities and cities are struggling, alongside private companies, to find effective ways to filter and organize, at speed and with efficiency, the enormous amounts of data new communication devices throughout the energy origination, production and delivery systems emit. IBM may have found a way to solve the problem. Keep reading →
Innovation remains the word of the moment in an energy industry continuing to struggle with the latest round of changes and challenges.
Change has come to feel constant in the energy business, but there are occasional tipping points where long-forecast adjustments actually come to pass. Breaking Energy reported on one such case study this week – long-time coal giant state Pennsylvania has begun to shed the percentage of electricity it derives from coal, and even its industry association is forecasting sustained declines in usage. Keep reading →
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
When this video was filmed, most of the US power grid was already more than 50 years old, and concerns about technological innovation and investment levels in the electricity sector were intensifying. Keep reading →
