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Two weeks ago, instead of experiencing the D.C. snow storm that never came, I was in California attending the Green Grid Forum 2013.聽 For those of you who don't know about it, The Green Grid (TGG) is an open industry consortium of end users, policy makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies that works to improve the resource efficiency of data centers. With more than 175 [...]
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Last summer the U.S. EPA and 91pro视频 jointly convened a road-mapping workshop on the ENERGY STAR program.聽聽 Both groups recognize the unique nature of information and communication technologies (ICT) -- their complexity, their rapid evolution, their global nature, and their interplay with so many other products in the emerging 鈥渘etwork of things.鈥澛� And, consequently, we both saw value in co-hosting an [...]
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The Subcommittee on Energy and Power held its Hearing聽Tuesday聽on "American Energy Security and Innovation: An Assessment of Private-Sector Successes and Opportunities in Energy Efficient Technologies." The staff background memo, the witness list, written testimony and other info is聽here. I only caught portions, as the Hearing lasted 4 hours, and was held concurrently with the CEQ-hosted聽GreenGov Dialogue [...]
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The reaction from Democratic and Republican Members of Congress to Tuesday night鈥檚 State of the Union Address and Republican response show the genuine opportunity for the development of a next-generation energy strategy that can jumpstart U.S. job creation and economic growth.聽 And the technology sector can be a leader in this effort, utilizing innovative products that boost efficiency and productivity [...]
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Back in 2005, 91pro视频 worked with Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. and Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., on the introduction and then enactment during the 109th Congress of a small bill (HR 5646) that focused on better understanding data center energy efficiency. 聽We followed that up in 2007 by helping to draft and then supporting the successful Eshoo/Rogers amendment that became Section 453 of the Energy Independence and [...]
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On Friday, I had the great pleasure of sitting in on the congressional briefing on 鈥淒ata Center Energy Efficiency鈥� that 91pro视频 hosted with Representative Anna Eshoo (D-Ca).聽聽 As 91pro视频鈥檚 Dean Garfield noted in introducing her, Representative Eshoo聽 鈥渨as doing data center efficiency before data centers were cool.鈥澛犅� Indeed, Eshoo and 91pro视频 worked on the 2005 bill that she and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mi) [...]
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After reading the New York Times鈥� 鈥淧ower, Pollution, and the Internet,鈥� this weekend, I thought that it was time to close the books on DESSC.聽 We鈥檝e so clearly failed to help create innovative, sustainable energy solutions in the tech sector.聽 Obviously, the Times has to be right:聽 There鈥檚 no way that big tech can co-exist with big energy savings and efficiencies.聽聽 And then I snapped back to reality.聽 [...]
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In his blog Thursday, 91pro视频鈥檚 Tom Gavin discussed the 18 Presidential Innovation Fellows just announced at the White House.聽 I鈥檝e been fortunate to have already begun working with one of them, Ian Kalin, who is now teamed with Nick Sinai of OSTP on the Energy Data Initiative (EDI).聽 (Check out our earlier blog on the EDI for more information.) While two energy jams have already been held, it鈥檚 clear [...]
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This blog was originally posted on the DESSC website. With the Paul Ryan announcement this weekend, the partisan messaging on energy policy ratcheted up further.聽聽 To recall what 2013 should be about on energy policy, I spent lunch glancing again at two recent documents: Senator Murkowski鈥檚 June 5th speech at GWU, and an 91pro视频F report also from June. The Senator notesthat our fundamental goals should [...]
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Earlier this month, The Economist ran an upbeat editorial on the reinvention of the U.S. economy.聽聽 I was reminded of what is good about the U.S. and the amazing capacity this country has to innovate and collaborate, a theme that seems to recur in many other reports I鈥檝e recently read. This capacity is evidenced by the Obama Administration鈥檚 Open Data Initiatives program.聽 I鈥檝e been reading about the [...]