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IBM to increase the amount of renewable electricity it procures

IBM to increase the amount of renewable electricity it procures

By Tom Raftery on March 27, 2015

After returning from IBM’s InterConnect conference recently we chided IBM for their aping of Amazon’s radical opaqueness concerning their cloud emissions, and their lack of innovation concerning renewables. However, some better news emerged in the last few days. The Whitehouse last week hosted a roundtable of some of the largest Federal suppliers to discuss their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, electricity, Electricity generation, emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, ibm, Renewable energy, renewables

Apple, cloud computing, and enterprise supply chain management

Apple, cloud computing, and enterprise supply chain management

By Tom Raftery on February 19, 2015

Apple’s recent announcements around renewables and supply chain transparency, put the major cloud providers to shame. Apple had a couple of interesting announcements last week. The first was that they were investing $848m in a 130MW solar farm being built by First Solar in California. With this investment, Apple enters into a 25 year power […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, green cloud, renewables, supply chain, supply chain transparency, supplychain, Sustainability

The coming together of the Internet of Things and Smart Grids

The coming together of the Internet of Things and Smart Grids

By Tom Raftery on November 21, 2014

I was asked to speak at the recent SAP TechEd && d-code (yes, two ampersands, that’s the branding, not a typo) on the topic of the Internet of Things and Energy. This is a curious space, because, while the Internet of Things is all the rage now in the consumer space, the New Black, as […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged demand response, electricity, Electricity 2.0, Internet of Things, IoT, renewables, smart grid, utilities

GE publishes Grid Resiliency survey

GE publishes Grid Resiliency survey

By Tom Raftery on November 7, 2014

GE’s Digital Energy business produced this infographic recently, based on the results of its Grid Resiliency Survey measuring the U.S. public’s current perception of the power grid. The survey was conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of GE from May 02-06, 2014 among 2,049 adults ages 18 and older and from June 3-5, 2014 among […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Electricity 2.0, ge digital energy, grid resilience, renewables, Survey, utilities | 1 Response

Technology for Good – episode thirty two with SAP’s Sameer Patel

Technology for Good – episode thirty two with SAP’s Sameer Patel

By Tom Raftery on September 28, 2014

Welcome to episode thirty two of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode we had SAP‘s Sameer Patel as the guest on our show. Sameer and I are members of the Enterprise Irregulars group – a loose group of analysts and vendors with an interest in enterprise software. Previous Enterprise Irregulars who have […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged alba, climate, google, GreenMonkTV, knfb, knfb reader, led lighting, Lighting, renewables, Sameer, sap, SAP AG, transportation, udacity, wemo

SAP to power its cloud computing infrastructure from 100% renewable energy

SAP to power its cloud computing infrastructure from 100% renewable energy

By Tom Raftery on March 26, 2014

Cloud computing is often incorrectly touted as being a green, more environmentally-friendly, computing option. This confusion occurs because people forget that while cloud computing may be more energy efficient (may be), the environmental friendliness is determined by how much carbon is produced in the generation of that energy. If a data centre is primarily powered […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, green cloud, ibm, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, renewables, sap

Here comes the sun… IBM and solar forecasting

Here comes the sun… IBM and solar forecasting

By Tom Raftery on March 7, 2014

For decades now electricity grids have been architected in the same way with large centralised generation facilities pumping out electricity to large numbers of distributed consumers. Generation has been controlled, and predictable. This model is breaking down fast. In the last decade we have seen a massive upsurge in the amount of renewable generation making […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, demand response, Electrical grid, ibm, machine learning, renewables, solar | 1 Response

Internet of things, wind turbines and ThingMonk the conference.

Internet of things, wind turbines and ThingMonk the conference.

By Tom Raftery on November 5, 2013

This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Internet of things, wind turbines and ThingMonk the conference. Back in 2009 I remember attending Logica’s analyst day in Lisbon and being very impressed with their Renewables Management System (RMS) – a windfarm management desktop application which was at the time managing a live […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged cgi, Internet of Things, IoT, logica, renewables, renewables management system, RMS, wind farms, wind turbines

SAP’s 2011 Sustainability Report

SAP’s 2011 Sustainability Report

By Tom Raftery on April 2, 2012

SAP launched its 2011 Sustainability Report this week and in terms of aesthetics and social sharing, this is one of the best Sustainability Reports I have seen to-date. The site contains many videos with SAP staff – including one from co-CEO’s Jim Hagemann Snabe & Bill McDermott which is featured prominently on the home page. […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, emissions, Energy, renewables, sap, Sustainability, sustainability report

Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables

Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables

By Tom Raftery on December 20, 2011

Google has had an impressive record in renewable energy. They invested over $850m dollars in renewable energy projects to do with geothermal, solar and wind energy. They entered into 20 year power purchase agreements with wind farm producers guaranteeing to buy their energy at an agreed price for twenty years giving the wind farms an […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged bill weihl, coal, datacenter, Energy, Facebook, google, green energy, renewables, unfriend coal

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