IBM, infrastructure companies and utilities are mining electric vehicle data to plan where to put charging stations, manage the impact on the power grid and develop new services for the nascent EV industry.
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The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI), University of Hawaii at Manoa will work with AeroVironment and Hawaiian Electric to collect data from chargers to analyze the impact of EVs and associated infrastructure on the power distribution grid.
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Fourth, sell diamond rings to college students and fifth, send computer data over copper electric wires.
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Electric utilities count on climate data to anticipate peak power requirements and distribute power where it is needed.
Workers at the plant have received considerably higher levels of exposure, according to data from Tokyo Electric Power Co.
The company also sees a huge opportunity with electric cars, and especially data centers, which is one of the first markets it will be targeting.
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Virginia-based OPower has won many contracts with utilities, such as San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric, to use personalized data, competition and even social media to prod consumers into cutting their electricity consumption.
Phasor measurements track the amount of stress placed on the electric power grid by providing granular data about frequency, voltage and phase angle conditions in real-time.
Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of Tesla Motors, is accusing the New York Times of faking data about how the electric Model S performed in cold Northeast weather.
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Coal has fallen to 32% of U.S. net electric generation, according to preliminary EIA data for 2012.
The calculator uses pre-entered data points, such as average electric rates, but users can enter their own electric rates for more accurate results.
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Sure there are interesting in-car adaptations of entertainment services, data will be big, and electric vehicle drivers need a range of battery-related services that can be served by apps.
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As a consequence data centers are using an increasingly large amount of power both to run equipment and to keep the operating temperature of that equipment at appropriate levels (this has led to building many newer data centers next to hydro-electric and other inexpensive power sources as well as in colder climates).
Despite dramatic advances in information technology, many electric utilities still operate in the dark ages of data management.
The data update was necessary to include newer information about current electric rates, equipment prices and performance.
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The FDA asked for more data to prove that changes the drug caused to the electric rhythms that guide the heart were not harmful.
They are business services provider Automatic Data ( ADP), global electrical equipment maker Emerson Electric ( EMR) and paint and specialty chemicals supplier PPG Industries ( PPG).
Whether in data protocols for mobile telephony or the technical specifications for electric-vehicle recharging, China has chosen to go its own way in a manner that confers advantage to domestic firms.
Chevy's Volt could be different--there aren't too many other plug-in hybrid electric cars to compete with at the moment--and the Vincentric data is just a prediction of future worth.
According to Bob Bauer, group vice president of Emerson Electric and head of its Liebert business, which makes cooling devices for data centers, the key to efficiency is focusing on the whole system rather than a single component.
General Electric could leverage its CNBC network with Bloomberg's business news and market data.
The report noted a strong quarterly dividend history at General Electric Co, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.
The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at El Paso Electric Company, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.
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They include products and devices such as Bluetooth headsets used with cell phones, handheld metal detectors used by airport security, iPods, iPhones, electric blankets and pills that are swallowed and used to image internal organs by transmitting wireless data.
Carson says Boeing contracted out virtually all the hardware--the onboard antennas linking the plane to a satellite, which then feeds data back and forth with a terrestrial server, comes from Japan's Mitsubishi Electric, and the internal Wi-Fi gear is from Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ).
GridEye will produce dynamic system behavior data that will provide insight into how renewable generation assets change the dynamic behavior of the electric grid.
The price appears lower than the average small solar electric systems that have been sold in California in the past 12 months, according to state government data.
That data will influence how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on the roll out of electric charging infrastructure as well as the development of future electric vehicles.
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AutoGrid, based in Palo Alto, develops software that crunches data collected by the smart meters at each home or business and by sensors placed throughout the electric grid.
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Obvius has pioneered a portfolio of plug-and-play data-collection and communications applications based on an open architecture, which allow users to monitor electric, water, gas, environmental and renewable energy information through a single, web-accessible platform.
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