It is supposed to do groundbreaking research in renewable energy and work with the state's Smart Grid Consortium to drive down energy costs.
And this week several of the industry's main firms, including AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Sun, launched a "Green Grid" consortium dedicated to reducing data-centre power consumption.Three technological fixes in particular could help.
Now the Micro-grids' consortium hopes to set up a new project to apply the designed kit on some rural non-electrified villages.
The Green Grid, a consortium, was created in 2006 to work on energy consumption standards for equipment in data centers.
There is already a measure to evaluate data centre energy efficiency: the power usage effectiveness metric, developed by The Green Grid, a consortium of technology industry leaders including Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
"Texas is really leading the nation with respect to promoting a well-balanced approach to smart-grid," said Jerry Jackson, a former Texas A&M professor who now leads a national smart-grid research consortium based in Orlando, Fla.
The success of SETI@Home has inspired a number of other grid-computing initiatives, like Grid Republic, a consortium of more than 50 projects relying on the same screensaver-based software, and IBM's World Community Grid, which is being used by Chinese researchers to investigate efficient water-filtering techniques using nanotubes.
In May 2007, the University of Delaware, PHI, and other partners, established the Mid-Atlantic Grid Interactive Car Consortium (MAGICC) to prove the V2G concept.
Lots of new wind and solar farms are going to require huge amounts of new transmission lines that will carry that power from remote places to more populated areas, an endeavor that a consortium of grid operators projects will cost as much as $100 billion.
German Utility Sells Gas Distribution Network for $4 Billion | The German utility E.ON said it sold its Open Grid Europe network to a consortium led by Macquarie for 3.2 billion euros ($4 billion), Reuters reports.
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