An Open Letter to Our Next President
Dear President-Elect Obama, Congratulations on a historic victory. The economy and Iraq will no doubt be high on your agenda when you enter the Oval Office, but a number of environmental issues need...
View ArticlePowering Our 21st Century Lives With a 19th Century Design
Part one of two in a series on smart grids Can you hear it? The buzz on smart grids is getting louder. News reports on green jobs are peppered with talk of a “smart grid.” Google returns 929,000 pages...
View ArticleThe New Smart Grid: 21st Century Tech for the 21st Century
Part two of two in a series on smart grids First, a recap of last week’s post: In the late 19th century Thomas Edison pushed for a distributed system to deliver electrical power. His dream was never...
View ArticleThe Smart Grid Is a Happening Thing
Smart folks like David Brewster of EnerNOC are not waiting to make the grid smart. It’s easy for people like me to get discouraged about the future when it comes to climate and energy. The nation’s...
View ArticleEnerNOC: Implementing Tomorrow’s Smart Grid Today
Featured tonight on PBS’s Nightly Business Report. When it comes to David Brewster, the co-founder and president of the Boston-based company EnerNOC, I’m not exactly an objective observer. As dean of...
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