Media
U.S. Smart Grid's Pitch to Congress in Copenhagen
(GreenTechGrid – December 18, 2009)
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Smart Grid to Address Climate Change?
One Smart Grid Coalition Presents this Option
(TMCNet.com – December
21, 2009)
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With Climate Deal in Works, DRSG Coalition Works on Congress
(SmartGridToday – December
21, 2009)
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Smart Grid Coalition Briefs House Speaker and Congressional Delegation in Copenhagen on How Smart Grid Helps Address Climate Change
(December 18, 2009)
Members of the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the other members of the House Delegation to COP-15 in Copenhagen. The DRSG members provided the Delegation with a brief overview on the smart grid and allowed House Members to actually see some smart grid devices in action. The DRSG members talked not only about how the smart grid enables greater energy efficiency and renewables but also about the fact that it may actually be necessary for achievement of climate change goals. They also talked about their support for the Green Smart Grid Initiative.
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US
Coalition of Big-Name Actors Calls for International
Real-Time Power Date Mandate: DRSG, GE, Google, Whirlpool
Float Idea in Copenhagen
(SmartGridToday 16, 2009)
This SmartGridToday article reports on the “Call
To Action” issued by GSGI supporters--- including
the DRSG Coalition, Google, GE, and Whirlpool---in Copenhagen
during the COP-15. The GSGI supporters specifically call
for enabling customers to be able to receive real-time
electricity-consumption information.
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Delurey, Hamilton
Report to Us from Copenhagen
(SmartGridToday, December 14, 2009)
This SmartGridToday article about the
UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen is
based on reports from the Green Smart Grid Initiative.
It notes that the smart grid has been a prominent topic
at the conference.
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Green Grid Initiative
OK’d to Take Google,
Whirlpool to Copenhagen
(November 25, 2009)
This SmartGridToday article reports on the Green Smart Grid Initiative receiving
UN approval to attend COP-15, the climate-chance conference in Copenhagen.
It says that GSGI’s main message is that “the smart grid is something
that makes reaching targets for reducing emissions easier.
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DR
Group Heads to Copenhagen to Promote ‘Green
Grid’ Initiative
(October 20, 2009)
This SmartGridToday article reports
on the launch of the Green Smart Grid Initiative (GSGI). It cites the
Demand Response Coordinating Committee’s
(DRCC) support of GSGI, and it quotes the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
and GE Energy.
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GE, Whirlpool and Others Launch
Green Smart Grid Initiative
Aimed
at
Including Smart Grid in Copenhagen Meetings
(Washington, Tuesday, October 20, 2009)
GE, Whirlpool Corporation
and a
number of other companies today announced the creation
of a new collaborative
effort aimed at demonstrating the role of smart grid technologies
and practices
in the achievement of climate change goals. Called the
Green Smart Grid
Initiative (GSGI), the effort will include educational
events at the upcoming
climate change meetings in Copenhagen. GSGI has been approved
by the United
Nations to be an official smart grid delegation to the
Copenhagen meetings.
GSGI will also be sponsoring educational events in the
U.S. in the weeks
preceding the meetings in Copenhagen.
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