News (48)

  • Cisco Australia targets energy utilities

    Cisco's Australian division yesterday said Australia's utility sector could deliver it significant new business as electricity giants adapted to demand to feed power back into their grids.

  • IT titans to put datacentres on energy diet?

    The Green Grid, a nonprofit organisation designed to improve energy efficiency for datacentres and corporate computing, announced on Monday its first board of directors.

  • CSIRO: Kilowatts for cash close to a reality

    According to the CSIRO, an Australian energy distributor could soon trial technology that would allow energy consumers to slash their power usage in return for cash, and help cut the likelihood of power brownouts in Australia.

  • Google extending renewable energy plans

    Google can brag about having the biggest corporate installation of solar power. But for them, it's just the beginning of their renewable energy plans.

  • Tasmania powers up 12Mbps broadband

    Internet service provider Datafast, in partnership with Aurora Energy and hardware vendor Mitsubishi Electric, today kicked off a 12Mbps broadband over power line service in Hobart, which the company claims is the world's first large-scale commercial trial.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (15)

  • Green your datacentre or it may go dark

    Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.

  • Grids over the enterprise WAN

    SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.

  • Oracle enters the grid

    commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?

  • HP to unveil nanotech breakthrough

    Hewlett-Packard researchers will unveil a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology, a milestone in the company's goal to build chips based on "molecular grids".

  • Scientists express joy at LHC switch-on

    ZDNet.com.au's sister site ZDNet.co.uk was at the Science & Technology Facilities Council event in Westminster to see, via video-link, the Large Hadron Collider being initiated. This photo gallery takes you inside the event, and the initial reactions of scientists.

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (4)

  • HP mixes business with grids

    Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.

  • First Take: Nintendo DS

    We take Nintendo's newly announced portable for a test drive.

  • Tomorrow's notebook technology

    What sort of notebook could you be buying in 4 months, or in 2004? We peek into the crystal ball.

  • Quantum deep

    Discover the future of computing beyond Moore's Law. Will we have to change our entire approach to software and hardware design?

Create an e-mail alert for "energy"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
energy


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 2 apac
  2. Popularity: 3 aurora
  3. Popularity: 5 bpl
  4. Popularity: 6 broadband
  5. Popularity: 2 broadband over powerline
  6. Popularity: 2 carbon emissions
  7. Popularity: 2 cio
  8. Popularity: 2 cisco
  9. Popularity: 3 computing
  10. Popularity: 5 datacentre
  11. Popularity: 2 dell
  12. Popularity: 6 electricity
  13. Popularity: 2 future
  14. Popularity: 2 google
  15. Popularity: 8 green
  16. Popularity: 5 grid computing
  17. Popularity: 2 grids
  18. Popularity: 2 hewlett-packard
  19. Popularity: 2 hobart
  20. Popularity: 5 hp
  21. Popularity: 6 ibm
  22. Popularity: 3 intel
  23. Popularity: 3 internet
  24. Popularity: 2 line
  25. Popularity: 2 linux
  26. Popularity: 2 memory
  27. Popularity: 3 microsoft
  28. Popularity: 2 nanotech
  29. Popularity: 2 nanotechnology
  30. Popularity: 2 nanowires
  31. Popularity: 4 network
  32. Popularity: 2 oracle
  33. Popularity: 2 physics
  34. Popularity: 7 power
  35. Popularity: 2 power line
  36. Popularity: 2 power station
  37. Popularity: 2 powerline
  38. Popularity: 3 research
  39. Popularity: 2 servers
  40. Popularity: 3 solar
  41. Popularity: 2 storage
  42. Popularity: 2 sun
  43. Popularity: 2 supercomputer
  44. Popularity: 4 tasmania
  45. Popularity: 2 technology
  46. Popularity: 5 telstra
  47. Popularity: 2 transgrid
  48. Popularity: 2 university
  49. Popularity: 2 ups
  50. Popularity: 2 utility

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured