This is the last day of NPR’s energy series: Power Hungry: Reinventing the U.S. Electric Grid. Today’s stories focus on Could Energy Innovation Create a ‘Green Bubble’? and A New Grid May Be Needed, But So Are New Habits. The whole series was very interesting – there are a lot of challenges to setting up a [...]
The NPR series Power Hungry: Reinventing the U.S. Electric Grid continues and this time is looking at the New Phase in Energy Use and Young Workers Find Opportunity in the Power Industry. The New Phase is about the utility companies and how change can be difficult for them because they are mostly regulated and wonder if [...]
The NPR series Power Hungry: Reinventing the U.S. Electric Grid continues with stories on The Challenge: Constant Current from Fickle Winds and The Grid May Be Smart, But Will It Be Green? The problem of green energy is that when the wind does not blow, the sun does not shine, there is no power [...]
NPR’s 10 part series on energy continued today with Building Lines Creates a Web of Problems and Smart Meters Save Big Bucks. The Smart Meters are one of the areas that the Eneregy Utilization Center will examine because it is starting to pull together the technican side and the consumer side of the Electricity Use, Management, and Conversation. Smart Meters [...]
Some people may wonder why MATEC is looking into Energy Utilization. It is actually a natural fit – MATEC, and MATEC NetWorks, has worked with semiconductors, electronics, and automation, which also grew to include nanotechnology (partnership with the NACK center) and alternative energy – photovoltaic (which is closely related to semiconductors in the manufacturing process), [...]
As I was driving along to work I heard the start of an National Public Radio (NPR) series on the Smart Grid and the Electrical Lines of America. Since I am starting to blog about the Energy Utlization Center (EUC), this was a great series for me to look up on their website. In a [...]
A few questions that we have received as we were developing our Energy Utilization Center proposal: Why energy utilization? The world is changing and as third world countries become more industrialized, better developed, their thirst for energy becomes more. There is only a finite amount of fuel in the world when we consider fossil fuels. [...]
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