Cyndy Falgout

More than a dozen Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) executives will be featured speakers at the second annual 2015 NC Clean Tech Summit Feb. 19-20 at The Friday Center in Chapel Hill.   The RTCC is a major sponsor and advisor of the event, which will focus on three themes: The Military and Renewable Energy, Smart Cities and Sustainable Communities, and The Future of Electricity in the Southeastern United States.   The summit will convene professionals in business, policy and academia from across the state for two days of problem-solving and planning to foster leadership and growth in the...

While technological advances and consumer demands accelerate the pace of innovation in electric power generation, distribution and consumption, it is grid integration and public policies that ultimately will determine how rapidly and well those advances are deployed. This was the consensus expressed by energy experts convened at the first-ever Energy Thought Summit at Research Triangle in Raleigh Nov. 12 to examine the complexities facing an electric power industry being turned on its head by rapid change. The Economist in October declared the U.S. electricity power grid “a mind-boggling mess,” with its patchwork of providers and regulators that serve overlapping...