Electricity
Power Protector: How Blockchains Can Bolster the Grid’s Cyber-Defense
The past week’s ransomware saga is a potent reminder of just how vulnerable our information and data is to cyber-threats. But it’s not just our information that’s vulnerable; these threats extend into the physical world of electricity too. In fact, today’s electrical grid is incredibly insecure against cybersecurity threats; for…
Catalyzing the Market for Automated Emissions Reduction
Download the charrette report: Catalyzing the Market for Automated Emissions Reduction In March, Rocky Mountain Institute and our partners convened more than 60 stakeholders from across the electricity industry for two days in Chicago to explore the potential for a new and promising technology: automated emissions reduction, or…
Transforming Business Leaders Into Clean Energy Experts
Guest author Richard Profit is a senior manager at PepsiCo Global Operations Sustainability. Corporate buyers gathered in the heart of ski country in Aspen, Colorado, this past February for the second Buyer’s Bootcamp organized by the Business Renewables Center (BRC). The two-and-a half-day bootcamp was an intense course in…
eLab Accelerator Projects Sustain Hope for Clean Energy Innovation
Anyone reading the news knows that clean energy isn’t getting much support at the federal level these days. As President Trump moves to unravel the Clean Power Plan and his administration continues to promote the use of fossil fuels for energy generation,…
The Promise of Platform-based Grids
Platform business models have redefined the modern economy. From titans of personal computing and e-commerce like Apple and Amazon, to ubiquitous financial services that we use with hardly a second thought (think ATMs and credit cards), industries everywhere have reoriented from one-directional pipeline delivery systems to multisided platforms on which…
