tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85794670593472707902012-02-16T22:56:06.215-05:00Exploring employment and workplace trends at the intersection of information technology and greenEric Chabrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003867382493414620noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579467059347270790.post-64048461712035154112010-12-31T15:55:00.003-05:002010-12-31T16:02:19.756-05:00

One of the more intriguing tradeoffs with information security is green IT, says Robert Brammer, Northrop Grumman Information Systems vice president of advance technology. Check out my interview at GovInfoSecurity.com: Facing Tradeoffs to Secure IT Systems.

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Smart grids and related technologies ranked fourth on a list of 17 green sectors venture capitalists invested in last quarter."Look for 2009 to be the year of smart grid, energy storage and energy efficiency," says senior analyst Eric Wesoff in a statement issued with a report from Greentech Media that showed VCs invested $208.5 million in 11 deals.Investments in seven green IT deals topped $37.3

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A report to be released Wednesday calls on the Obama administration to earmark about $30 billion on high-tech jobs in its stimulus package that could reach $1 trillion.The report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation—The Digital Road to Recovery: A Stimulus Plan to Create Jobs, Boost Productivity and Revitalize America—promises to provide “a detailed analysis and estimate of

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Not everyone thinks there should be a lot of intelligence in the smart electrical grid.The CEO of electricity demand control systems provider Sequentric Energy Systems, Daniel Flohr, prefers a smart grid without too much in the way of brains. Citing Flohr, a posting on the site arstechnica.com says:Utilities want things reliable, secure and cheap, and it's easier to get all of those by limiting

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Linking the electrical grids with smart electric meters in homes and businesses should create many job opportunities for IT professionals in the coming years.Two trends in efficient energy management are converging. One involves advanced meters that monitor and manage electric use in homes and businesses. The other is advance response programs utilities offer that manage customer consumption of

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A posting, Smart Grid for a Smart Planet, on smartmeters.com explains why the experts designing the next generation of the electrical grid need IT smarts.Technological advances of the modern age can take the power grid out of the dark ages and make it smart. Power grids around the world can be monitored and managed in much the same way a computer network is.Smart meters can be applied to the

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An analysis by the industry trade research arm Electric Power Research Institute shows how IT smarts can help reduce electricity use.In a web posting this week, the institute contends a smart grid could potentially reduce annual U.S. energy consumption by 56 to 203 billion kWh in 2030, corresponding to a 1.2% to 4.3% reduction in projected retail electricity sales in 2030.In addition, according

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To create a real smart grid needs more than just smarts; it needs leadership. In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, Accenture U.K. and Ireland managing director David Thomlinson writes: There is plenty of competition for clean technologies, but no country has yet established a leadership position in the evolution of smart grids.With smart metering, Thomlinson notes, reducing demand for

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How much should the U.S. government invest in smart grid technology?The government really doesn’t have unlimited resources, despite talk of a stimulus package that could reach $1 trillion. So, should technologies like the smart grid be built regardless of cost?Adam Stein, emissions reduction project manager and co-founder of the voluntary carbon offset provider TerraPass, posted the following

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If IBM is interested in the electrical smart grid, you got to believe there’s a strong IT connection to smartly managing the efficient use of energy and the money to be made doing just that. In a posting on GreenTechMedia.com, Draw Clark, director of strategy, emerging markets, at IBM’s Venture Capital Group, is quoted as saying: "Cleantech may be the only category [of venture investing] that is

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Can the smart grid provide jobs quickly based on existing technology that will be flexible to adapt to the innovations of tomorrow?That’s a question raised by Patti Harper-Slaboszewicz, director of advanced metering and meter-data management at energy researcher and consultancy UtiliPoint International, who has analyzed comments made by the top nominees of President-elect Obama’s energy team. In

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Companies will continue to invest in green technologies in 2009 at the same or greater levels than in 2008, according to a study by Panel Intelligence.In its first quarterly sustainability track studying, conducted in early November of 65 sustainability executives from Fortune 500 companies, the cleantech and healthcare market research firm reports: • Sustainability and clean technology spending

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My favorite issue each year of The New York Times Magazine comes out in mid-December: The Year In Ideas (cover image at left, click on it to enlarge>.Among the ideas in this eighth annual A to Z listing: the Smart Grid.

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Silicon Valley might pull back in their green startup investments in the coming year, and venture capitalist Rob Day sees that as a good thing. Michael Kanellos, blogging on GreenTechMedia.com, cites @Ventures partner Day as seeing VC investing in green-tech declining by as much as 40% in the first half of 2009. Funds would be diverted away from crowded markets like solar and biofuels. Why is

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This blogs gives a lot of attention to the smart grid, mostly because it shows the convergence of the electricity grid with smartness brought on by information technology.Two recent web postings help define the smart grid:From the Wired Blog Network: The Austin Smart Grid.From The New York Times: On the Road to a Smart Grid.

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A clean-tech research-publishing firm and executive search firm have teamed to launch an online site that posts job openings for the clean-energy and clean-tech industries.Clean Edge Jobs already has nearly 200 jobs posted. Among these are those demanding IT know-how such as system programmer, web developer, software engineer and data processing specialist.It's been the contention of this blog

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Hot,Flat and Crowded author Thomas Friedman, writing Wednesday in his New York Times column provides a preview of what part of the Energy Internet will look like in the not too distant future.Friedman writes of new business called Better Place, which is setting up vehicle electricity charging stations in Australia, Denmark, and Israel as well as Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay.The Better Place

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Google has joined the GridWise Alliance, the industry group that fosters a more efficient and less costly distribution of electricity announced Tuesday.In a statement accompanying the announcement, Dan Reicher, Google's director for climate change and energy initiatives, said:"Smart grid technologies will empower consumers with real time, money-saving information about their energy use. Building

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Austin Energy in Texas is among the most innovative utilities in America, and its general manager Roger Duncan understands the connection between IT and developing the smart grid.In an interview with Kate Galbraith, who covers renewable energy for The New York Times, Duncan concedes there are plenty of questions that must be answered before a grand vision of a smart grid is achieved. Quoting

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A new report from the Demand Response Coordinating Committee, a not for prof that promotes efficient energy use, suggests federal and state governments have done much in promoting a smart grid to intelligently distribute electricity, but adds that more must be done.The report, Demand Response and Smart Metering Policy Actions Since the Energy Policy Act of 2005, points out that Congress has

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Infrastrucutre to deliver energy, not specific altneratives to fossill fuels such as solar or biofuel, is where much of venture capital's "green" investments will be made, Arrun Kapoor (below) of SJF Funds, a venture capital fund where half of the investment is in "green" projects, tells Reuters:Because the current electric grid is 30 to 40 years old, Kapoor sees a new "smart" grid as an

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Cyberattackers present such a threat to the Internet that they could hamper development of new forms of online commerce, including the creation of an energy Internet.A story in The New York Times on Saturday says cyberattackers are handily winning a technology arms race with vast resources from stolen credit card and other financial information. And, despite efforts by the computer security

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Clean-tech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla writes in a Newsweek.com posting that beyond increasing support for research, the government can require a market for renewable fuels and renewable electricity. That, he writes will encourage entrepreneurs to develop these technologies and venture capitalists to invest in them. And, he's convinced the best companies that emerge can achieve unsubsidized

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The World Economic Forum has selected 34 visionary companies, including two that couple IT with green, as Technology Pioneers 2009 for their accomplishments as innovators and deep impact on business and society.The two, cited in the field of Energy/Environment are the Current Group and GreenPeak Technologies.Here's what the World Economic Forum said about each of these companies:Current is the

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Though still a minute part of their businesses, IT services firms are winning more contracts to help improve the smart electricity grid, adding even more intelligence to what could evolve into the energy Internet.So, could one reason payrolls expanded at IT services firms last month when nearly every other sector shed jobs be its entry into this new green-tech field? The primary factor for job

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2009 is just around the corner, and with the new year, comes predictions. Cleantech Group Executive Chairman Nicholas Parker has come up with nine trends to watch for in 2009. What's dear to Tech2Green's heart is No. 7.The IT and telecom industries over the last few years have started to get increasingly engaged in clean technology. Companies like IBM, Autodesk, Cisco and Intel are becoming ever

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My favorite quote of the week comes from Tom Raftery, a social-media blogger and business-tech manager from Ireland, speaking at a European conference last week:“If you placed an iPhone in front of Alexander Graham Bell (below), he wouldn’t recognize what it was. But if you put an electricity grid in front of Thomas Edison (right), he’d recognize it straightaway; that’s because electricity grids

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Two strong backers of Barack Obama presidential bid, environmentalists and union autoworkers, could be butting heads over an auto industry bailout and the aim to manufacture energy-efficient cars. According to an Associated Press analysis:The United Auto Workers, along with Detroit's Big Three, are pushing for an infusion of emergency loans for the carmakers' immediate needs—even if that means

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Despite massive job reductions in many industries, green jobs are proving to be resilient, at least in Europe, some recruiters say.According to a report posted on ClimateChangeCorp.com, the low-carbon job market in Europe continues to prosper. Here's what Ben Cartland of the environment, sustainability and climate-change job recruiter Acre Resources says: “Appointments are still being made and we

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Here's what President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday when he nominated New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his Commerce Secretary:As a former Secretary of Energy, Bill understands the steps we must take to build a new, clean-energy industry and create the green jobs of the 21st century. Jobs that pay well and won’t be shipped overseas—jobs that will help us end our dependence on foreign oil.

Eric Chabrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003867382493414620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579467059347270790.post-78433225732335069742008-12-03T14:19:00.010-05:002008-12-24T17:07:24.640-05:00

Two Clemson University mathematical scientists are developing mathematical models of complex power-distribution networks to advance the understanding of monitoring in real time the electric grid so utilities can ensure uninterrupted service, improve distribution efficiency, save energy and reduce operating costs.The challenges of modeling and system identification of the smart grid lies in the

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A consumer advocate wonders who will pay for a smart electrical grid.The executive director of the Illinois consumer watchdog Citizens Utility Board, David Kolata, writes on SouthtownStar.com: President-elect Obama favors development of a "smart grid," but big questions remain about how it gets built and who foots the bill. The big utilities are all-too-eager to slap consumers with the costs

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How IT will help reduce carbon emissions, and the need for tech-savvy pros to develop such systems, is at the heart of this blog. And, here's an example of one such technology.GridPoint this week is demonstrating software that allows owners of electric vehicles to set parameters so utilities can charge their cars and trucks to optimize a smart electric grid, charging when renewable energy is

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Much must and can be done by the information and communications technology (ICT) industries to reduce their own carbon emissions. But a just-released addendum to last June’s study for the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, Smart 2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age says ITC can help reduce 97% of emissions for the rest of the economy.Written by the Boston Consulting Group

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As part of its economic stimulus package, the Obama administration may earmark $50 billion to fund environmentally sound infrastructure projects, according to a key economic advisor. Obama adviser and Economic Policy Institute economist Jared Bernstein (left) along with other economists see the money funding at least $50 billion in environmentally sound infrastructure projects that could be up

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Nicholas Jolly is trying to define exactly what is a green job, but he isn't having much success."Defining a job as green is difficult, for green is becoming ubiquitous, encompassing many areas of the economy," Jolly, an economist for the Connecticut Department of Labor, writes in the December issue of The Connecticut Economic Digest.Everyone agrees that environmental engineering is a green job,

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Mobile device maker Nokia envisions building a mobile platform that could bundle household energy management system with other residential offerings.Nokia last week announced a partnership with one of Europe's biggest energy companies, RWE, to develop a comprehensive solution for managing energy consumption and limit residential CO2 emissions. According to Nokia:With this in mind, the first joint

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An interconnected smart power grid is the fastest way to a low-carbon energy system in Europe.That was the takeaway from a two-day gathering of 160 scientists, businesspeople and government officers meeting in Denmark late last month to identify the quickest means to lessen CO2 emissions, according to a statement issued by Risø DTU, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical

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The incoming Barack Obama administration's commitment to a smart grid should increase the demand for those with IT skills to help enhance the so-called energy Internet. The following is from Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle:Obama is considering creating an energy council within the White House, much like the National Economic Council. He has asked former EPA administrator Carol Browner to lead

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I’m not alone (read Global Warming and IT Jobs: A Lose-Win Proposition) in seeing the battle against global warming benefiting the IT profession.Jack Santos, CIO executive strategist with the advisory firm Burton Group, in a post on the business-tech pub Baseline’s website, writes:We are embarking on the greatest period of innovation the world has known. What does this mean for IT? Consolidated

Eric Chabrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003867382493414620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579467059347270790.post-7180299253192192162008-11-29T12:02:00.009-05:002008-12-24T17:15:59.946-05:00

Opportunities for green IT jobs should rise as the use of alternative energy sources decentralize the way electricity is distributed. Here's what Merrill Lynch cleantech analyst Steven Milunovich said this past week about the green economy:Energy markets today are mostly centralized. While solar and wind farms may continue this trend ... decentralized energy generation and monitoring through

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There's been much talk of the smart grid, but compared with the Internet, the electricity network is pretty dumb.It's a point lamented by Google CEO Eric Schmidt in remarks he made last week at a Natural Resources Defense Council event in New York. Schmidt said:Now, I’m a computer scientists; I think about the Internet. I look at the electric grid and I say, why is the electric grid the same as

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Further proof of the key role IT will play in driving efficient use of energy came Tuesday when the Columbus, Ohio-based electric utility picked IBM to integrate its suite of customer programs to create a new energy delivery system.According to an AEP release:IBM will provide AEP with support services across the program, including program management, business process design, systems planning and

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The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition issued on Tuesday policy recommendations to President-elect Barack Obama and the incoming Congress that the association contends will stimulate the economy, enhance infrastructure and create green jobs.One of the goals of the trade association of smart-grid technology providers, if realized, could create green jobs for IT professionals. Provide

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A recent report, Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy, from the Center for American Progress and the Political Economy Research Institute, identifies nearly 60 occupations that should benefit from green investments.(Click on chart to view larger version.)

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A: Because pizza isn't delivered when no one is home.IBM puts out this amusing, minute-45-second video that explains the smart grid.

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The press is buzzing with President-elect Barack Obama’s proposed stimulus package to create 2.5 million jobs over two years. Among the jobs most often mentioned is the insulation installer, who’ll help make homes and other buildings more energy efficient. At the same time, we're inundated with stories of the potential bankruptcy of one or more of the Big 3 automakers that could results in tens

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Nearly three of 10 servers in a typical data center aren't in active production, but they still consume electricity.That figure comes from Uptime Institute founder and executive director Kenneth Brill."They need to be turned off, removed from the racks and disposed of. Unfortunately, efficiency is not cool. Unless senior executives demand the ability to uninstall hardware, the tendency will be to

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Most business managers don't like to supervise telecommuters. They should get over it for the sake of the environment.One way to reduce the carbon footprint of business as well as corporate expenses is to get as many workers as possible to telecommute. Just look at Sun Microsystems, where more than half of its 19,000 employees telecommute at least part time as part of its Open Work program.

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Though the deteriorating climate spells bad news for earth, and for all of us, global warming could benefit IT professionals looking for work in the not-too-distant future. That's because government and business will greatly step up the pace of creating systems and networks to more efficiently manage the distribution and use of energy.It's what New York Times columnist Tom Friedman describes as

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