Note: This is a revision of the same post from last week, with an updated time-of-use pricing plan from Los Angeles. What if electricity cost...
Solar grid parity is considered the tipping point for solar power, when installing solar power will cost less than buying electricity from the grid. It’s...
Conducted by market research institute Forsa on behalf of municipal utilities in Germany, the survey found that 61 percent of Germans are willing to pay...
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is hosting an informational meeting on Thursday, January 12, at 1:00. For those who cannot make it in person, it...
One of the reasons community broadband networks face so many unique hurdles (often created deliberately by states in response to cable/dsl lobbying) is because of...
Phillip Dampier at Stop the Cap! has once again followed the money trail to reveal AT&T pulling puppet strings to attack broadband stimulus funds. More...
Update 1/12/12: I created a new post to reflect the current time-of-use pricing plan for Los Angeles Update 1/10/12: Fixed a missing pie chart and...
Our focus tends to be at the most local — how do people in local communities access the Internet? But we do worry about how...
Provo built a city owned FTTH network after its public power utility started connecting its substations with fiber-optic cables in the early 2000’s. iProvo ultimately...
The following news report suggests that some in Knoxville, Tennessee, are starting to get a little jealous of the incredible FTTH network built by Chattanooga’s...
It’s a new year, but most of us are still stuck with the same old DSL and cable monopolies. Though many communities have built their...
Yesterday New York Times reporter Matt Wald had a piece on the role of energy storage in supporting the expansion of renewable energy. However, his...
Smithsonian magazine provides some background on Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code and credited with inventing the telegraph. It is interesting background, but not particularly...
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