Posts Tagged ‘smart grid’
GE announces winners of ecomagination Challenge
Among the nearly 4,000 submissions to advance the smart grid through a collaborative framework, five winners were announced Tuesday.
Each of the following five companies will receive $100,000 from GE to pursue their plan. (For more details, check out the press release from GE: http://tinyurl.com/33b94r4 or visit www.ecomagination.com for a fuller picture of GE’s work to jumpstart the smart grid.)
And the winners are….
Capstone Metering: Intelligent Water Meters, Carrollton, Texas
ElectricRoute: Secure Communications Network for the Electric Grid, Salem and Hollis, New Hampshire
GridON: Controlling Power Quality in Electric Grids, Givatayim, Israel
IceCode: Wind Turbine Blade Anti-Icing and De-Icing, West Lebanon, NH
WinFlex: Inflatable Wind Turbines, Kiryat Yam, Israel
Grid-tastic
This just in: GM and Better Place have announced a partnership to advance the EV dream.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20017233-501465.html
In other news, GM and ABB are working on ways to find new life on the grid for old Chevy Volt batteries.
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/gm-abb-seek-chevy-volt-battery-afterlife-in-grid/
And while we’re on EVs, did you hear? Coda Automotive, whose CEO, Kevin Czinger, spoke at the 2010 Washington Auto Show Green Car Summit on Capitol Hill, has announced the price on its 2011 sedan: $45k:
Registration opens for “Networked EV”
How exactly will electric vehicles and smart grids converge?
greentechmedia will discuss the marraige of these minds at its Networked EV event. It’s not til November 9, but early registration has opened:
http://www.greentechmedia.com/events/live/the-networked-ev/
