Archive for August, 2008

EnergyConnect Inc. Moves Into New Headquarters
Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Company chooses location to accommodate business growth
LAKE OSWEGO, OR–(BUSINESS WIRE)– EnergyConnect, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microfield Group, Inc. (”Microfield”) (OTCBB: MICG - News), and industry leader in innovative demand response technologies, today announced that it is has moved corporate headquarters to a more suitably structured office space […]

Peak Pay-Off
Monday, August 18th, 2008

Meeting peak demand for power can cost utilities plenty. With demand-response programs, they’ll pay you to help cap the peak by trimming power use.
Reprinted article (pdf) from Building Operations Management, July 2008.

Article Excerpt:
Some power customers are getting paid to use less electricity — not just once, through a grant or rebate, but every time they […]

Can We Prevent Another Blackout
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Full article is at Time.com.
Article Excerpt:
Making the grid smarter will take real investment, but that’s been lagging, and like much of our infrastructure, the grid is overdue for an overhaul. “Government funding has been pretty modest in scale,” says Daigle. He notes that last year’s federal energy act contained authorization for smart grid investment — […]

Power Plant Costs & The Case For Energy Efficiency
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Read the full article more at www.altenergystocks.com.

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But The Real Winner Is…
Unsurprisingly, the FERC expects there to be a response to rising electricity prices - in other words, demand for power is elastic.
What’s the main response likely to be initially? An increase in demand-response (technologies that adjust power consumption based on prices). The FERC estimates […]

Microfield Group Reports Correction to Gain on Sale of Discontinued Operations
Friday, August 8th, 2008

PORTLAND, OR –(BUSINESS WIRE)– Microfield Group, Inc. (”Microfield”) (OTCBB: MICG - News) announced today that it has corrected the reported gain on the sale of its discontinued operations. The company reported a corrected gain of $135,000 on the divestiture of Christenson Electric, Inc. (“CEI”). The company previously reported the gain at $1,785,000.
An error was made […]