Why China Has Already Overtaken The U.S. in Cleantech

Why China Has Already Overtaken The U.S. in Cleantech

The United States is the world’s green economy leader and just recently, China became the second largest economy, but where do they stand in the green category? Based on the different metrics, they have surpassed the U.S. as the green economy leader.

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

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.