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April 23, 2013
Good-bye and Thank You for Reading

All good things must come to an end, and that is the case with Smart Energy Portal. Despite your devoted readership, we are sad to report that we will stop publishing articles on the Smart Energy Portal website after today.

Insights, Business
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April 15, 2013
Sustainability, Social Responsibility and Profitability Can Exist in One Utility

For the second year in a row, Target Rock put together a Sustainable Utility Leaders Index (SULI), which is a stock index that helps guide sustainable and socially responsible investment decisions. Twenty-four utilities made the cut out of 150 publicly traded U.S.-based utilities that were scored.

Insights, Business, Utility Generation, Environmental Impact
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April 8, 2013
How Safe Are Nuclear Plants Around the World?

As the world waits to see what happens with North Korea this week, I began to wonder about the security of the power system around the world.

Insights, Nuclear, Utility Generation
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April 2, 2013
Commercial Business Owners Must Focus on a Comprehensive Lighting Program for Bigger Energy Savings

Commercial building technologies have come a long way, and they will only continue to improve, providing some significant savings to commercial and industrial business owners who implement the new technologies.

Insights, Energy efficiency, Business, Lighting, End Use
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March 26, 2013
When Should Incentives End for Renewable Energy?

Legislation appears to be a big driver behind the use of renewables. When will that trend end?

Insights, On-site PV/wind, State, Business, Wind, Solar, Solar Power, Utility Generation, Customer Generation, Policy
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March 18, 2013
Green Construction and Renewable Use Are on the Rise

Three recent reports only confirm what many people believe: the world is experiencing a growth in green construction and renovations as well as a growth in reliance on renewable energy generation.

Insights, Energy efficiency, Wind, Solar, Green buildings, Building retrofits, Other renewable, Utility Generation, End Use
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March 12, 2013
Two Types of Energy Are Exerted Inside These Four Walls

Health clubs use more energy than many people think, but a growing number of club operators are turning to energy audits and green equipment to make their commercial businesses more energy efficient.

Insights, Asset Management, Energy efficiency, Business, Connecting to Grid, Green buildings, Customer Generation, End Use
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March 4, 2013
Energy Changes at a Turtle's Pace

To those people who have been in the industry for 12 years, it may seem that little has changed. However, for me, it seems more has changed than you may realize.

Insights, Back-up power, Nuclear, Coal Power Plants, Business, Wind, Solar, Reliability, Utility Generation, Customer Generation, Energy Delivery, Smart Grid
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February 26, 2013
This Insight Has Been Interrupted

Best-laid plans really do go awry sometimes. I spent part of yesterday writing this week’s insights column, knowing that a winter snowstorm expected to hit the KC area would cause hazardous travel so I would likely be working from home.

Insights, Energy Delivery
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February 18, 2013
What You, the Readers, Want

Details from last week's survey shows that readers like news coverage and details on technology advances.

Insights, Community, Business