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offshore wind energy. Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm Courtesy of SSE. Credit: chpv.co.uk/SSE/RWE

As technology develops, prices fall and interest grows, offshore wind energy is poised to become a notable player in the world energy market.

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Warming World

Clean Energy and Smart Grids: Where Are We Now?

Avery Phillips clean, efficiency, efficient, energy, grid, hydro, renewable, smart, solar, wind 1 Comment

Smart grids can make it possible to combine multiple types of renewable energy sources, and create a more powerful and comprehensive system.

Warming World

Cleaner Drilling: If We’re Going to Drill Anyway, Can We Make It More Efficient? Technological Innovation and Concern for the Environment Are Helping to Clean Up Drilling for Oil and Gas

Megan Wild cleaner, drill, drilling, fossil fuels, fracking, fracturing, gas, GasFrac, grid, hydraulic, liquefied, LPG, methane, natural, oil, Petroleum, pipeline, pollution, propane, water 3 Comments

Technological Innovation and Concern for the Environment Are Helping to Clean Up Drilling for Oil and Gas…

Greener grid - credit: Daniel Hoherd, FlickrCC

Cover Story

The Great Green Grid A Smart Grid That Lets Us Better Control Our Energy Use May Finally Be Ready to Launch

Mike Martin Amory Lovins, DOE, electric, Electric Power Research Institute, electrical, electricity, energy, Federal Cybersecurity Act, green, grid, IntelliGrid, Long Island Power Authority, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, outhern California Edison, power, Rocky Mountain Institute, system 0 Comments

The smart grid will allow us to really make use of renewable energy like wind and solar and give consumers new control over their energy use…

Features

A City Gone Smart Boulder, Colorado Is the First to Employ the Smart Grid Citywide

Michael Prager Boulder, city, Colorado, electrical, electricity, grid, smart, smartgridcity, town, urban 0 Comments

Boulder, Colorado, is now SmartGridCity. Thanks to a test run of smart grid technologies there, residents are already saving money and reducing energy use.

Features

The Smartest Washer on the Block GE's Demand-Response Appliances Are Coming Soon

Brita Belli appliance, appliances, Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, demand response, Dow, Ecomagination, EDF, Environmental Defense Fund, fridge, frig, GE, General Electric, grid, Home & Business, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, refrigerator, smart, Whirlpool 0 Comments

Demand-response heaters, refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances are being rolled out at GE and will available in stores soon…