Green Collar Technologies » Smart Grids http://greencollartech.com Education for Green Collar Workers in Hawai‘i Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:29:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Smart Grids Support Green Collar Tech Workers http://greencollartech.com/smart-grids-support-green-collar-tech-workers.htm http://greencollartech.com/smart-grids-support-green-collar-tech-workers.htm#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:36:10 +0000 grencoll http://greencollartech.com/?p=1200 Green Collar Technology Workers will benefit from a smarter utility grid on Hawai`i Island. The costs are expensive where an average of 15 folks per square mile pay for electrical services. The Department of Energy may lend some support due to the amount of oil we burn for energy. Unintended consequence?

Let’s not make smart grids legislation an option in the next session. At a time when infrastructure build-out is on the minds of nearly everyone in County government, let’s seize this opportunity to raise awareness now.

How could HECO / HELCO can help support higher-speeds and proliferate faster connections to the web?

Here’s some resources to help identify and understand the issues:

Smart Grid Solutions to Enable More Renewable Energy
February 02nd, 2009 . 01:06 pm by Devon Manz

Smart Grid Leadership: The Top Ten ‘Smartest’ States in 2009
by: Jesse Berst at greentechmedia.com March 23, 2009

Report: Smart-grid hackers could cause blackouts
by Zoë Slocum

On the Road to a Smart Grid
By KATE GALBRAITH

Smart Grid Spending: “More Than A Game Of Catchup”
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | March 4, 2009 12:26 PM

Smart Grid Makes The Super Bowl, But Is It Smart Stimulus?
February 02, 2009 03:12 PM ET | Matthew Bandyk

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