ECOtality said it will install 12 of its Blink electric vehicle charging stations at Best Buy stores in California, Arizona and Washington by 2011.
Google's much buzzed-about driverless cars could make for more environmentally friendly cars, Earth2Tech writes, saying that robot-driven cars can calculate fastest routes and avoid quick acceleration or braking.
Silver Spring and Tendril could be adversely affected by an Illinois ruling, Earth2Tech writes. The ruling found that utility Commonwealth Edison was wrong to pass certain smart grid rollout costs along to its customers. Barring an appeal, the utility may have to scale back the project, which planned to use GE smart meters with Silver Spring's networking and connected to Tendril's home management systems.
Constellation Energy has all but killed its nuclear reactor project in Maryland, pulling out of an application for a federal loan guarantee, saying the government would have required the company to pay $880 million upfront to lessen the risk of default, WSJ reports.
SolarBridge, maker of power conversion solutions, announced it is now offering a microinverter solution with a 25-year warranty and partnering with SunPower and Kyocera Solar to bring the microinverter-enabled AC modules to market. Microinverters can increase energy harvest by solar modules.
Verizon announced it has partnered with SmartSynch to produce a 3G residential smart grid solution for utilities.
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