N.C. A&T wins cleantech competition
WRAL TechWire
RALEIGH, N.C. — The N.C. A&T cleantech project that won $100,000 in the business plan competition aims to turn hog waste into a useful building material....
Read more'Smart transportation' plan to be unveiled in Raleigh
WRAL TechWire
RALEIGH, N.C. — Economic developers and companies in the Triangle are aiming to make the region a leader in plug-in electric vehicle technologies (PEV) and today they’re unveiling their plan to do it....
Read moreRTI to analyze Triangle 'smart' assets for Cleantech Cluster organization
WRAL TechWire
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster, am organization created to promote and help grow the region's renewable, "smart" energy and other cleantech industries, has hired RTI to continue a study of the area's "smart" assets....
Read moreCatch this rising RTP catchphrase: ‘cleantech cluster’
Triangle Business Journal
Four companies ABB, Siemens, Schneider and Power Analytics, with help from the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, are teaming up to create a trade organization for sustainable energy and other “clean-tech” industries.
Read moreResearch Triangle: The New Silicon Valley of the Smart Grid?
Greentech Media
We explore the 60-plus smart grid players and cutting-edge test labs and pilot projects of North Carolina’s Research Triangle.
Read moreIs North Carolina’s Research Triangle the Smart Grid’s Silicon Valley?
Clean Technica
Silicon Valley has traditionally been the epicenter of American smart grid technology innovation, but a new report suggests North Carolina’s Research Triangle may deserve the title and be key to the industry’s economic future.
Read moreRaleigh's Smart Grid Bid
Bloomberg Businessweek
Alex Huang keeps busy as a full-time electrical engineering professor at North Carolina State University, but outside the classroom he has his hands in a really big project. He wants to help the U.S. update its energy infrastructure and make the transition to the so-called smart grid—a digitized power grid that would allow users and power companies to communicate better, boosting efficiency and reliability. With a team of power electronics experts at the FREEDM Center, a multiuniversity initiative headquartered at North Carolina State’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh, Huang is helping to develop a digital “smart transformer” that will allow electricity to flow throughout the grid, rather than solely from generators to users as it now does.
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