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Ausgrid has installed 20 energy storage units and will be connecting them to the grid to test whether they can help lower peak demand.
Datacentre company NextDC will outfit its Port Melbourne datacentre, M1, with solar panels over the next few months and expects to do the same with its other facilities in the next year.
Cisco is gearing up to invest aggressively in smart grid technology, which it sees as the successor in opportunity and scope to the internet, the networking company's chief executive John Chambers has said.At the Cisco Live show in London on Tuesday, Chambers told ZDNet UK that the smart grid market presents an opportunity at least as big as the original internet did in its infancy and that the networking giant will invest "aggressively" in smart grids.
I think the thesis that energy storage technologies will be critically important for alternative energy, the smart grid AND electric vehicles is pretty well-accepted.But it won't be just batteries vying to play a role in energy storage.
The acquisitions support Teradata's transition from old-world datawarehouse vendor to "big data" provider, with services in the cloud that promise, faster, more relevant data retrieval.
Security is being embedded in the core of Cisco's engineering efforts as the networking company looks to expand upwards and into the cloud, according to chief executive John Chambers.Chambers, who was speaking at Cisco Live in London after a visit to the World Economic Forum at Davos, told the audience that "economists on a global basis are saying [employee] productivity can grow two, three, four, five percent a year.
Battery technology will also factory heavily in automaker's renewable energy investment.
CES 2010: Marvell has announced the next generation of its plug computer, the Plug Computer 3.0, which now offers a 2.0GHz Armada chip, energy efficiency and improved media streaming.
My quest to find companies working on renewable energy storage technology recently led me to International Battery, an Allentown, Pa., company that makes large-format rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
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