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Sun, 2012-01-22 04:40 — mdmcdonald
The Energy Collaboratory is focused on developing a sustainable energy path for San Francisco.

The mission of the Energy Collaboratory is to develop a sustainable energy path for San Francisco.

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Anticipating The Perfect Storm of Impossible Events

Tue, 2012-02-21 22:50 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Jonathan King

By: Rich Miller - datacenterknowledge.com - February 20, 2012

Jesse Robbins is a trained fireman. He also has managed some of the world’s largest Internet infrastructures. Robbins says the lessons of fire readiness can be applied to building reliable systems.

“You cannot learn the lessons of failure without experiencing it,” said Robbins, the co-founder and Chief Community Office at Opscode. “That’s why we do fire drills.”

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Why San Francisco Can Be the World's First VERGE City

Mon, 2012-02-06 17:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Derek Top - greenbiz.com - January 31, 2012

Maybe it's a West Coast thing. While the VERGE discussion at last week's GreenBiz New York City event centered on the city's famous competitive edge in finance, research and development, and, ahem, football, the folks on the San Francisco GreenBiz Forum panel concluded that a VERGE city should focus on "how does it make living in a city better."

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PG&E’s Plan for a More Efficient, Greener Smart Grid Filed with CPUC

Fri, 2012-02-03 00:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

A smarter grid combines communications, computing and control technology for greater efficiency. Photo courtesy of Theodore Scott

submitted by Marlene Vogelsang

pgecurrents.com - by Jonathan Marshall - June 30, 2011

This article originally appeared in NEXT100, a blog on the next century of energy supported by PG&E.

PG&E today handed the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) its broad Smart Grid plan for building a more flexible, efficient, reliable and environmentally sustainable electrical system for the benefit of its more than five million electric customers.

The plan represents a year of concerted effort by PG&E’s widely honored Smart Grid team, responding to a CPUC request on June 24, 2010. Other California utilities also will be filing their Smart Grid plans by tomorrow’s deadline.

PG&E Proposes Six Smart Grid Pilot Projects

Fri, 2012-02-03 00:22 — Kathy Gilbeaux

PG&E's proposed smart grid projects would make the utility's electric distribution system more reliable and flexible.

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pgecurrents.com - by Jonathan Marshall - November 22, 2011

PG&E yesterday (Nov. 21) asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for the right to begin work on six new smart grid pilot projects that hold great promise for benefiting customers and meeting California’s energy policy goals.

The projects involve adding line sensors and controls to make the utility’s electric distribution system more reliable and flexible; new voltage and grid control systems to lower customer energy costs and help integrate customer-owned solar generation into the distribution system; and more local electricity demand forecasting to improve efficiency.

The projects also would enhance PG&E’s capabilities for testing and evaluating new technology, and help customers understand how they can take advantage of a smarter grid to better manage their energy use and save money.

Community Choice Aggregation

Tue, 2012-01-31 18:14 — mdmcdonald

Community Choice Aggregation or CCA is a system adopted into law in the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, California, New Jersey and Rhode Island which allows cities and counties to aggregate the buying power of individual customers within a defined jurisdiction in order to secure alternative energy supply contracts. Currently, nearly one million Americans receive service from CCAs.

Your Ecological Footprint

Tue, 2012-01-24 12:53 — mdmcdonald

 

How are you and your neighborhood doing in terms of your ecological Footprint?  There are many ways to calculate ecological footprint and many different tools that can be used.  Below is a mainstream assessment tool that will give you a quick sense of your ecological footprint and how to reduce it.  

http://www.myfootprint.org/


To know more about your environment in San Francisco, go to:

http://www.sfenvironment.org/our_programs/topics.html?ti=19

 

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