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    <title>IEEE Spectrum: Energy</title>
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      <title>Smart Grid Grants</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The U.S. government has announced the winners of $3.4 billion in grants for smart grid technology<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/0yDldhO_lHw" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Smart Meter Avalanche</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/FMT2wD2hSCM/the-smart-meter-avalanche</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One compilation suggests that automated electricity meters are to be installed in more than half the U.S. states, including most of the most populous ones<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/FMT2wD2hSCM" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Energy-Efficient Appliances With Minds Of Their Own</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/BytG-XpXS3s/energyefficient-appliances-with-minds-of-their-own</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Appliances in Masdar City will talk to the grid and make decisions about how much energy to use - but shouldn't they ask permission first?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/BytG-XpXS3s" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>It's  a Big Grid, and Somebody Has to Furnish It</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Having completed applications to obtain U.S. government money for smart grid projects, energy companies are readying themselves to improve operations in all parts of the power system, from the customer's premises to the substation and a control center<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/7qaxgcNV8Io" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Rebuild Cities with Water in Mind</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Water is essential to life, but sometimes a threat as well.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/MpP6l4d1l68" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>China's Grid-limited Wind Energy Potential</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[China's wind energy potential is massive. Only the challenge of connecting it to the country's power grids stands in the way of a coal and nuclear-free future.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/eAtnD7WhvU0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Boulder SmartGridCity Claims to Be Fully Functional</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/3zxusga-mcY/boulder-smartgridcity-claims-to-be-fully-functional</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[But it in fact is not fully functional in the senses some will expect<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/3zxusga-mcY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>A Billion Dollars and Counting in Smart Meter Applications</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/cuGbNNTfWuk/a-billion-dollars-and-counting-in-smart-meter-applications</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[At first deadline for federal smart grid applications, smart meter buildouts figure prominently<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/cuGbNNTfWuk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Empire Off The Grid</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/sAcjqmVTHEo/empire-off-the-grid</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/empire-off-the-grid"><img border="0" alt="null" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/563872"/></a><br/><br/>Dean Kamen is turning his private island into a proof of concept for zero-net energy<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/sAcjqmVTHEo" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>World Power</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/IIb5xVhVwTY/world-power</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[How Yankee ingenuity harnessed the future<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/IIb5xVhVwTY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Dean Kamen Unplugged</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/kUuZ-spbZVI/dumpling-island</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Millionaire inventor Dean Kamen takes his private island off the electrical grid<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/kUuZ-spbZVI" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Saving the Power-Loving Parrots of Brooklyn</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/jDsWa54oZEA/saving-the-powerloving-parrots-of-brooklyn</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One utility has found that kindness trumps cruelty<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/jDsWa54oZEA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Smartening Up the Grid</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/M7DXYpxRbhk/smartening-up-the-grid</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Rebuilding electrical transmission to allow for a lot more smaller-scale renewable energy, will require fundamental regulatory reform at all levels.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/M7DXYpxRbhk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Smart Grid</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/HCM1-QgY3Mk/the-smart-grid</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-grid/the-smart-grid"><img border="0" alt="null" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/479441"/></a><br/><br/>An IEEE Spectrum Special Report<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/HCM1-QgY3Mk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Toward a Renewables-Friendly Grid</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/R_Vs1EVmHs0/toward-a-renewablesfriendly-grid</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/toward-a-renewablesfriendly-grid"><img border="0" alt="null" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/300850"/></a><br/><br/>A great deal of money and deep technical expertise are now in place to get the U.S. transmission system ready for lots more wind and some more solar. But radical reform of management and regulation will also be required.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/R_Vs1EVmHs0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Of Cows and Power Lines</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/GZr6ZH1dw54/of-cows-and-power-lines</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-grid/of-cows-and-power-lines"><img border="0" alt="null" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/252441"/></a><br/><br/>Cattle seem to have an internal compass--one that's messed up by power lines<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/GZr6ZH1dw54" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Is This the Moment for Broadband Over Power Lines?</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/e0zyRya56k4/is-this-the-moment-for-broadband-over-power-lines</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/is-this-the-moment-for-broadband-over-power-lines"><img border="0" alt="null" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/283999"/></a><br/><br/>Smart grids and the push for rural connectivity propel power-line data communications<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/e0zyRya56k4" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Fast-Charging Lithium Batteries Disputed</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/9HATj6u8CcA/fastcharging-lithium-batteries-disputed</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-grid/fastcharging-lithium-batteries-disputed"><img border="0" alt="null" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/272654"/></a><br/><br/>But MIT inventors are holding fast-very fast indeed<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/9HATj6u8CcA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>How Smart Can You and Your Local Electricity Grid Get?</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/snyUsWhv97Q/smart-local-electricity-grid</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Xcel Energy's small-town test of smart-distribution and home-monitoring technology may set the stage for much bigger things.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/snyUsWhv97Q" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Obama Ratchets Up CAFE to Match California's Standards</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~3/dGRYzek8Cxk/obama_ratchets_up_cafe_to_meet</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[President Obama gathered auto executives, auto workers, environmentalists, and top federal and California officials at the White House this week to unveil a new consensus on fuel economy standards. His plan will harmonize the federal government's Corporate Average Fuel Economy or CAFE standards with tougher tailpipe standards for CO2 poised to take effect in California and 17 other states.

Obama traded up, according to close Detroit observer Jim Motavalli, who <a title="NYTimes' Wheels Blog" href="http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/obama-to-raise-fuel-economy-standards/" target="_blank">writes in  the New York Times' Wheels blog</a> that the new-and-improved CAFE is "roughly equivalent to those proposed under Californiaâ¿¿s tailpipe greenhouse-gas program." &hellip;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumTheGrid/~4/dGRYzek8Cxk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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