I'm spending this year as a reporting fellow at The New York Times. I'll be working for a newly formed group called the environment pod - writing a variety of stories with an environmental angle. I'll also be blogging for Green Inc. and Dot Earth, two of the paper's blogs.
Meanwhile, I also recently came back from reporting trips in Denmark and Germany, funded through a journalism fellowship from the American Council on Germany. Stay tuned to see my work from these reporting trips!
" What's up with Google?" Google wants to offer electric load shedding by-way of controlling electric load at the wholesale and retail level.
Imagine a " app" on your 3G phone, that offers you a discount on your electric bill if you agree to shut off your AC compressor for an hour during the hottest days of August. Utilities will pay Google big money for this service. Google could also read your " smart meter" and provide bill collection as a complete package. General Electric is already on-board. This service will have applications world wide. Utilities
Posted by: frank wylie | May 06, 2010 at 01:05 PM