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Solar Benches to be Installed in Boston

Solar Benches to be Installed in Boston

written by CleanTechies.com Contributor

The 60-year-old technology is finally making into the mainstream of our daily lives.  The city of Boston plans to install solar photovoltaic powered benches that would serve as outdoor charging stations.  The first wave will be located in the Boston Common and the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

According to Marketwatch, a subsidiary of the Dow Jones, each bench will cost about $3000 and will be covered by Cisco Systems Inc.  Each unit comes equipped with a built-in solar panel and two USB ports, which would allow users to charge their phones and connect to WiFi.

New York could soon be next.  This could be revolutionary for the role that solar plays in our society.  For the most part, solar projects have been associated with electricity generation for homes and offices and the idea of solar generated electricity is nothing new.  Furthermore, solar panel technology has come a long way: both large and small-scaled solar power projects have sprung across the globe over the past decade.

While the solar bench technology is not revolutionary and it might not alleviate global warming and reduce carbon emissions, the integration of this product into our daily lives could be an inflection point in terms of how we perceive solar power and how we can improve our ways to use it.  “Everyone” has a mobile phone, and now one can sit on a park bench charging the phone and surf the web at the same time thanks to these smart benches.

Solar power is no longer just about harnessing energy and generating clean electricity on a grand scale.  Small solar projects such as a solar bench can be just as life changing as a solar farm if applied the right way.   And as result of that, more and more people will come to appreciate solar and for its uses.

Article by Sinan, appearing courtesy 2GreenEnergy.



July 7, 2014 2 comments
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Cisco’s New Building Energy Management Strategy

written by Walter Wang

You probably weren’t on Cisco’s fourth quarter earnings call last Wednesday. And even if you were, there’s a good chance you would have missed Cisco’s Chief Operating Officer, Gary Moore, casually make the following statement:

“We communicated this week the decision to adjust

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August 18, 2011 0 comment
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Top Ten Cleantech Initiatives of Cisco Systems

written by Walter Wang

Cisco Systems is a multinational corporation based in the United States. Cisco Systems designs, manufactures, and sells consumer electronics and voice, communications, and networking services and technologies. The headquarters of Cisco Systems is in San Jose, California. Cisco Systems is often cited

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July 18, 2011 0 comment
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The Cisco/Itron Alliance – Game Changer or Buzzword Bingo?

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Cisco and Itron announced a strategic alliance that promises to “advance the transformation of the world’s energy infrastructure”. It sounds pretty big, yes? The press release would be a good source for smart grid “buzzword bingo”, with the announcement of a joint collaboration on a standards-based, open, highly secure, interoperable, scalable, reliable, enterprise-

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September 2, 2010 0 comment
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Smart Grid into the Home: The Battle Begins

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Recent announcements illustrate that battle lines are forming over who, what, and how home energy management will be offered to consumers. Demand-responsive homes that throttle their electricity consumption based on the real-time generation capacity are key to the smart grid vision of distributed renewable and PHEVs. The big question is: who will entice pesky

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July 23, 2010 2 comments
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It’s Time for the Smart Water Grid

written by Guy Horowitz

Though Smart Water offers equal or potentially greater benefits than Smart Energy, Smart Water isn’t getting equal coverage.

It’s been a great year for the Smart Grid. Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, analysts, journalists, and regulators can’t stop talking about it. Experts are competing to project greater market potential. Zpryme puts the Smart Appliance market alone at $15.2 billion by 2015, Lux Research talks about $15.8 billion, Cisco estimates the overall opportunity at $100 billion and Pike research uses a whopping $200 billion figure.

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June 9, 2010 2 comments
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Smart Grid Goes Video Conferencing: Smart Cities to Provide Telepresence

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The creation of a smart grid of energy producers, distributors and consumers will undoubtedly be at the center of a sustainable future. Similarly using information and communications technology (ICT) to extend the benefits of urban living to outlying areas will become a much larger business opportunity.

Cisco is one company envisioning that the same principles of sustainability that will reshape the power grid will also be applied to essential services including health care, education, and municipal services.

IBM, AT&T, GE and Siemens also have designs on capturing a share of this market.

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September 15, 2009 2 comments
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