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Smart Grid reliability, delays

Fred Baker had a crisp message to a combined Energy and ICT audience: Make new mistakes in the Smart Grid, not the ones already witnessed

US Chief Technology Officer – NIST

I’m here at NIST in an IEEE SmartGridComm conference, together with my CTO. The quality of these presentations and ideas is breathtakingly high – including

On Selective Optimization

My car is a legacy Saab Aero from 2003, with turbocharged 2.3 litre engine and automatic transmission. When I plug in my laptop into it

Come back Sunshine

Vacations are over, even sun (or clouds) seem to know that. Today was the first time in July that our house required external power to

Economy in Electric Transportation

Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors is about to raise up to 178M$ of additional venture capital in order to develop fully electric cars for real use,

Unpredictable returns.. of investment

We had a refreshing summer storm yesterday here at Degerö, with gust speeds exceeding 20 m/s. For our house, it meant more than 50% energy surplus as

Visiting one of the Holy Places

I am deeply honored to have received an invitation to one of the Holy Places (in my quantum mechanical world view) – namely Lawrence Berkeley

We won!

It is a kind of David-Goljat feeling, winning the likes of eBay and HP at the Uptime Institute contest. It all boils down to rigorous

Parliamentary Inertia

A couple weeks ago I was invited to the Finnish parliament’s finance committee to present BaseN’s views, together with three major energy companies. The subject

Small Innovations

Reuters published an extensive article about the new Academica data center under the Uspenski cathedral. I have to say I’m somewhat surprised on buzz about