Green Technology
Broadband's benefits even extend to the air we breathe, the forests our nation is striving to preserve and new solutions to growing concern over global climate change. Telecommuting currently saves more than 840 million gallons of gas each year. If Americans telecommuted 1.6 days per week, our nation could save 1.35 billion gallons of fuel annually. Broadband-enabled SmartGrid technology may reduce up to 30% of electricity consumption.
Latest VideoThe Smart Grid Promise The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies hosted a recent forum titled, “The Smart Grid Promise: A Technology Policy Forum.” The event pulled together a number of representatives from private industry, consumer welfare groups, technology organizations and public officials to discuss the promise of the smart grid – cost savings, better data collection, energy savings, more consumer control over energy consumption and energy efficiency. Each panelist was asked to explore current efforts aimed at moving more of the country onto the smart grid, as well as what types of policies need to be adopted in order to ensure faster deployment and adoption of smart grid technology. Following the event we caught up with Larry Plumb, Executive Director of Emerging Issues and Technology Policy at Verizon. Studies
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