Big Money for 'Smart Grid'
blogs.abcnews.com 10/27/2009 — From Rachel Martin: Today President Obama is taking a tour of one of the country's largest solar farms, in Arcadia, Fla., which will be the backdrop for his announcement about a major federal investment in a "smart grid" -- a...

Wired for Progress: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid
americanprogress.org 2/23/2009 — Planning undertaken on a broad interconnection-wide basis that brings together multiple states in a transparent and participatory process to maximize the use of new renewable resources and optimize the reliability, efficiency, and economics of the ...

‘Smart Grid’ Technology: Obama’s Smart Move for Infrastructure Security
pajamasmedia.com 30 days ago — In addition to making our electrical grid more efficient, upgrading the system will prevent hacker attacks that could paralyze the country.

Dumb user meets smart grid
WWW.samefacts.com 12/16/2008 — Barack Obama is in favour of a smart electricity grid. So is the US Congress and George Bush's Energy Department. So is the EU. There must be a catch, surely. If a smart grid were an everybody-wins Pareto pizza, why isn't it there already? There are ...

Infrastructure: Roads and The Smart Grid
marginalrevolution.com 12/9/2008 — The first thing people think about when someone says "infrastructure" is roads and bridges. That's unfortunate because we already spend over $100 billion a year on transportation infrastructure and the truth is we don't need that much more. Peter ...

Wired for Progress 2.0: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid
americanprogress.org 4/3/2009 — Ambitious transmission planning on an interconnection-wide basis. Efforts such as the ongoing Western Renewable Energy Zone process and the Joint Coordinated System Planning effort in the East demonstrate that interconnection-wide planning can be done ...

Google "PowerMeter" Service Is A Step Toward A Smarter Grid (VIDEO)
huffingtonpost.com 2/10/2009 — Google is dipping its toes in the very buzz-friendly waters of "smart grid" technology. Google.org, the philanthropic wing of the Internet giant, has developed something called "PowerMeter," which (eventually) is meant to help individuals understand their own power use, with the goal of cutting ...

Obama's First Smart Move?
righteousrantings.blogspot.com 2/5/2009 — I like this idea. No snark included.

Grid-lock
tigerhawk.blogspot.com 1/29/2009 — There is at least one non-stimulative program in the stimulus package that I support, and that is the reconstruction of the electrical grid. Long story short, there is a staggering amount of energy wasted because our grid is old, and a national ...

Gore, the Grid, and Stimulus
corner.nationalreview.com 1/28/2009 — One of Gore's main points today was to stress that the Congress needs to pass "the entirety" of the Obama borrow-and-spend plan. That's because it includes the funds to build a new grid that a renewable-powered electric system needs. Now, as it ...

Obama Approves Gov't Contracting Overhaul — TIME.com Top Politics Stories 3/4/2009
President Barack Obama approved an order Wednesday to overhaul the way the U.S. government awards contracts for work to be done by the private sector

Obama takes aim at costly U.S. defense contracts — Reuters: Politics 3/4/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the U.S. government was paying too much for things it did not need and ordered a crackdown on spending he declared was "plagued by massive cost overruns and outright fraud."

Official: Fla.'s Fugate is Obama's choice for FEMA (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 3/4/2009
AP - President Barack Obama plans to name Florida's state emergency director Craig Fugate to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

White House won't say if Obama supports Sudan move (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 3/4/2009
AP - The White House is dancing carefully around the question of how President Barack Obama feels about the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

Obama pledges to turn tide on 'era of fiscal irresponsibility' — CNN Political Ticker 3/4/2009
President Obama says the overhaul of federal contracting is designed to save $40 billion a year. (CNN) — President Obama signed a memorandum Wednesday designed to save the federal government $40 billion a year by overhauling what Obama calls ...