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The Clean Energy Landscape- Linking Cyberspace with Real World Impact

Wise A., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US

NREL has launched a new open platform (http://openei.org/cee) that will help us to understand and engage the clean energy marketplace. We have designed an open source interface called the Clean Energy Economy Gateway that solicits [...]

A Nanotechnology Policy Framework for California

Wise A., Woodruff T., University of California-San Francisco, US

We are in the process of writing a nanotechnology framework policy recommendation for the state of California. It will be the first report of its kind to incorporate scientific analysis with regulatory recommendations. It will [...]

Laying the Groundwork: Lessons Learned from the Telecommunications Industry for Distributed Generation

Wise A., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US

The telecommunications industry went through growing pains over the past that hold some interesting lessons for the growing distributed generation “industry.” Public policy was crafted that helped to accelerate specific applications within the telecom industry, [...]