Cleantech
Research Triangle Region Shapes the Intelligent Energy Future
Ten years ago, North Carolina’s inaugural Sustainable Energy Conference hosted a few hundred government, academic and nonprofit representatives discussing ways to improve environmental protection and energy efficiency in the state.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago and more than 1,000 people – including executives from top energy companies around the globe – convened to vision and plan how to change the energy landscape for the Research Triangle Region, North Carolina and the world.
May 16, 2013 |
Cisco Joins Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster Board
Cisco, the global leader in networking, has joined the board of the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC).
May 7, 2013 |
Person County is an "Energizing" Locations with 5 Electric Producing Plants
Person County is located north of the City of Durham/Durham County and is an energy producing rich county. When Duke Power and Progress Energy recently merged to create the new Duke Energy, the nation’s largest utility, the “new Duke” now has two of Progress Energy’s large steam electric generating plants in Person County.
May 7, 2013 |
Cleantech Entrepreneurship: From Seed to Start-Up to Seasoned Enterprise
The U.S. Department of Energy’s second annual ACC Clean Energy Business Plan Challenge will arrive at NC State next week and the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster is putting an amazing team of companies on the court to help host the student teams and judge the competition.
April 4, 2013 |
Look at how far we’ve come. Can we sustain it?
In 2004, when NC Solar Center launched the Renewable Energy Technologies Diploma Series, the idea was to create a series of comprehensive, immersive and interdisciplinary workshops that would push the growing community of renewable enthusiasts out of their garages to get them to make a living out of their passion. Even then, North Carolina had one of the best tax credits in the country, and NC GreenPower was the darling program that would expand the market for these green technologies.
March 29, 2013 |
A new dog is in town, "The Energy Internet"
As budgeting and deficit woes abound both here in the Triangle as well as in Washington, we all often think about the varying roles of government, industry, and academia in domestic innovation and competitiveness. The Research Triangle Region is well known internationally as one of those regions that has played it's cards well in striking this balance between the three historically throughout the computer and communication age of the sixties through today.
March 14, 2013 |
Top 10 North American Utility Company (Duke Energy)
March 12, 2013 |
Smart Energy…Smart Transportation…Smart Water…
Regular Triangle Chatter readers will be aware of our frequent praise for the 2011 Duke University Center for Globalization, Governance and Competitive report, Smart Grid: Core Firms in the Research Triangle Region, NC, for helping put this region on the global cleantech map.
March 6, 2013 |
Fuel for the future
Using natural gas as a vehicle fuel is nothing new. In the United States, it’s been a transportation fuel since World War II.
February 18, 2013 |
Cree Sets New R&D Performance Record with 276 Lumen-Per-Watt Power LED
February 13, 2013 |
Cleantech, Meet Manufacturing
Innovate, Manufacture, Compete: A Clean Energy Action Plan. That’s the title of a new report out from Pew Charitable Trusts this week and it struck a chord with us as we work to launch the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster.
February 6, 2013 |
PowerSecure Announces $10 Million of New Business Awards
January 28, 2013 |
# 10 Best City to Find an IT Job (Raleigh)
January 16, 2013 |
# 5 America's New Tech Hot Spots (Raleigh-Cary MSA)
January 10, 2013 |
Triangle Green Business Challenge's Rewarding Luncheon
Last Friday, I attended the Triangle Green Business Challenge’s Appreciation and Awards Luncheon, and it was inspiring to hear comments from the speakers and the things participating organizations did as a result of taking the challenge.
December 18, 2012 |
Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster Recruits Partners
The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) hosted its first cluster-wide meeting Dec. 7, briefing more than 70 business, government, academic and nonprofit leaders on its cluster expansion plans and recruiting partners to implement them.
December 17, 2012 |