FierceEnergy

After a panel session at our [email protected] event, a recent article, and subsequent LinkedIn discussions, we've gotten into a whole mess of questions around energy education. These questions include: What is causing the shortage of STEM students in energy? How do we best get students involved in the power industry?

NC State University News

It only takes a power outage of a few minutes in the middle of a busy workday to drive home the hazards of relying on an energy infrastructure rooted in the Industrial Age. Without the electricity delivered over the nation’s power grid, commerce would grind to a halt, communication networks would fail, transportation would stop and cities would go dark.

National Science Foundation

It only takes a power outage of a few minutes in the middle of a busy workday to drive home the hazards of relying on an energy infrastructure rooted in the Industrial Age. Without the electricity delivered over the nation's power grid, commerce would grind to a halt, communication networks would fail, transportation would stop and cities would go dark.

When New York-based research firm Ipreo was looking to expand into a new office, the company searched nation-wide for the perfect location. “The primary goal was access to talent,” says O’Hara Macken, an EVP and managing director, “and the [Research] Triangle was our top choice in the U.S.” Ipreo, which provides data, software, and intelligence to the capital markets and public companies, opened an outpost in Raleigh, N.C. last year. It moved 70 employees from New York and Bethseda, Md., hired 80 locals, and plans to hire 100 more.

WRAL TechWire

In today's Bulldog wrapup of technology and life science news: IBM's head of SoftLayer quits; Ghost Linux bug haunting Red Hat, Ubuntu systems; EU clears plans by GSK and Novartis to trade assets; Facebook introduces 'New Super Bowl Experience' for the big game; and the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster welcomes four new members....

Wake County Economic Development

The Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE), a national Clean Energy Information Hub for local chambers of commerce, recently featured Wake County and the Research Triangle Region as the number one and number eight Chambers-in-Action stories for 2014. The stories showcase our area as being at the center of the convergence of energy innovation and defense technology and a global leader for smart grid innovation.

ETS Insights

When talking about the future grid—from microgrids to renewable energy to data and analytics—a lot of the talk naturally focuses on technology. But success in these areas isn’t just about technology; people are an important part of the success, too. More people need to be prepared for dealing with the next generation of the electric grid, but how do they best prepare?

ETS Insights

The topic of big data and analytics in utilities exploded onto the scene a few years ago. We’ve seen a lot of hype and excitement around the topic, but at the same time much of it has been around for a while. In the Big Data and Analytics panel session at the recent [email protected] event in Raleigh, North Carolina, we discussed what has changed and what has remained the same in the utility data and analytics—as well what’s on the horizon.

Triangle Business Journal

ABB is a Zurich, Switzerland-based company engaged in research and manufacturing of power and automation technologies. The company, with North American headquarters in Cary, has a $51 billion market cap and 30,000 employees in the U.S., 2,000 of whom are in the Triangle.

WRAL TechWire

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — While technological advances and consumer demands accelerate the pace of innovation in electric power generation, distribution and consumption, it is grid integration and public policies that ultimately will determine how rapidly and well those advances are deployed. So concluded thought leaders at the recent Energy Thought Summit. Cyndy Falgout sums up the conference exclusively for WRAL TechWire