by Peter May-Ostendorp | Jun 7, 2016 | News, Results
DC Power Coming of Age Alternating current (AC) continues to dominate electric power distribution both on the grid and inside buildings, but a look inside today’s buildings quickly casts doubt on the practicality of the AC power distribution paradigm. Direct...
by Peter May-Ostendorp | Dec 4, 2015 | News, Results
The energy use of the Internet continues to expand as information technology becomes ever more central to economic growth. Today, the data centers that drive the Internet are collectively the world’s 13th largest country as an electricity user. For the past...
by Peter May-Ostendorp | Jun 13, 2014 | News, Results
When faced with increasing electric demand and fixed generation resources, utilities typically choose to build more capacity. Innovative utilities are exploring alternative approaches by tapping demand-side resources to provide “negawatts” of capacity to the grid....
by Peter May-Ostendorp | Feb 4, 2014 | News, Results
Data. It weighs nothing. It can travel across the globe at the speed of light. It beams invisibly to the palm of your hand or the screen on your living room wall. But as we have known for years, those weightless, invisible streams of data leave a significant trail of...
by Peter May-Ostendorp | Sep 13, 2013 | News, Results
With a growing number of electronic devices in our buildings — computers, consumer electronics, solid-state lighting — and growth in distributed generation resources like solar PV, buildings now receive and consume an increasing amount of electricity that is...
