Week Ending May 15th

BT North American HQ in El Segundo, CA worked with Solar Power Partners which now owns and operates a solar PV  system designed and installed at BT’s El Segundo location by Suntech Energy Solutions. Solar Power Partners sells the renewable energy to BT defined in a purchase agreement more…

The Intersolar North America 2009 conference to be held in SF this summer is adjusting its infrastructure to accommodate an increase in demand for booth sales. A special focus on filling green jobs over the next decade includes job market information in a variety of formats powered by Solarjobs.com more…

The standards required for Smart Grid suppliers to coordinate their development, production, and deployment are lagging behind i.e. they were due yesterday. To their defense there wasn’t really any money allocated to this crucial organizational part of the puzzle until the recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act a.k.a the stimulus plan which was released from a place of desperation and panic. We have to solve this problem in its wake  more…

Trilliant, based in Redwood City, California, will provide the Smart Grid technology to a demonstration project that’s being launched in Ireland over a 4 year span. Trilliant’s product, SecureMesh Network, is a wireless system more…

The UK Government is calling for consultation entries for recommendations on Smart Meter technology focused on the functionality and delivery to domestic households and small to medium businesses. The deadline for responses  is 3rd August. The UK had previously issued responses for the consultation on Smart Metering in the commercial and public sector only in July of 2008 more…