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Networking the Green Economy: How Broadband and Related Technologies Can Build a Green Economic Future

Fabiola Carrion on March 8, 2010 - 3:00pm
Deploying broadband and related communication technologies, including smart meters in the home and smart grids to upgrade our power grid, have the potential of revolutionizing energy management and economic development, according to a new report by the Progressive States Network released in association with our partners, Communications Workers of America, the Sierra Club and the Blue Green Alliance. Last Thursday, leaders from those organizations convened at a panel on Capitol Hill, hosted by U.S. Representative Edward Markey, Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and joined by Nick Sinai, Director of Energy and Environment for the FCC's Broadband Strategy Plan, to discuss the findings of the report entitled Networking the Green Economy

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PSN on July 1, 2008 - 12:50pm
High-speed Internet can be a crucial tool in cuttingAmericans’ energy costs through the promotion of telecommuting and moreefficientenergy use. For example, interactive monitoring of homes and officescan help to reducegreenhouse gas emissions and our carbon footprint while offering largeeconomicpayoffs. The implementation of smart grids would help manage theintermittency of renewable, environmentally friendly, energy sources.

Optimizing themanagement of energy supply and demand means a reduction in the likelihood ofcrippling regional blackouts or the need for keeping costly reserve powerplants online. Itis predicted thatwide adoption and use high-speed Internet applications can achieve what manyestimate is a net reduction of one billion tons of greenhouse gas over tenyears, which, if converted into energy saved, would constitute 11% of annualU.S. oil imports.