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Obama Administration Establishes a National Climate Service and Portal

By Tracey de Morsella on February 26, 2010 2 Comments Climate Change, climate.gov, ClimateWatch, Commerce Secretary, Gary Locke, Jane Lubchenco, Natinal Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Academies, National Academy of Public Administration, NOAA, NOAA Climate Service, NOAA Science Advisory Board, river flows, sea-level rise, snowmelt, Thomas R. Karl

Earlier this month, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced the decision to create a NOAA Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together the agency’s climate science and service delivery capabilities as a way of addressing the growing demand for climate data vital to planning and operations. NOAA is also unveiling a new Web site – http://www.climate.gov – that serves as a single point-of-entry for NOAA’s extensive climate information, data, products and services.

SMART GRID ROUNDUP: Grants for National Smart Grid Announced, Hacking the Smart Grid; Wind and Solar Power Drives Need For Smart Grid

By Chris de Morsella on April 23, 2009 1 Comment Biden, code development, Commerce Secretary, Department of Energy, embedded devices, energy appliances, energy management products, energy storage, Gary Locke, grant, Grants, grid monitoring devices, hacking the smart grid, high voltage transmission, intelligence, IOActive, Jefferson, Joe Biden, Joshua Pennell, Mo., monitoring, National Smart Grid, National Smart Grid Grants, nationwide electrical smart grid, network security, network stack, power storage, security, Security Focus, security threats, smart grid, smart-grid industry, smart-grid technology deployment; deployment of grid monitoring devices, smart-grid technology development grants, solar power, solar;, stimulus funding, technology viability. smart-grid technology development grants, Vice President Joe Biden, wind, wind power, wireless networking standard, ZigBee

Quite a bit is happening in the smart grid sector. In this post I quickly look at the breaking announcement by Vice President Joe Biden of more than $3.3 billion in stimulus funding for grants to drive the rollout of a nationwide electrical smart grid.

I continue to follow the hacking of the grid story and try to give some various perspectives on this issue and what is being done about it.

Finally I post on how the growing adoption of renewable energy like solar and wind will require the grid to evolve into a much smarter, robust system and to incorporate systems for storing transient excess energy.