Photo: Xinhua/eyevine/Redux As smart meter installations wane in the United States, China has become the new leader in smart grid spending. China spent US $4.3 billion on smart grid investments in 2013 as the U.S. market contracted 33 ...
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India’s government wants to replace 26 million groundwater pumps for irrigation with more efficient pumps that run on solar power, in an effort to relieve farmers of high costs of diesel fuel. Diesel generators are commonly used when ...
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Faulty software in Toyota's popular Prius hybrids has forced the Japanese automaker to recall 1.9 million of such vehicles worldwide. The huge recall—representing more than half of all Prius cars ever sold—shows how Toyota has ...
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Existing home sales declined 5.1% in January to the lowest level since July 2012, the National Association of Realtors said Feb. 21. Sales fell to an annual rate of 4.62 million. The January level was lower than economists’ median ...
In other Obamacare implementation news, some regions are finding few plan options. And HHS is trying to resolve some healthcare. The Washington Post's Wonkblog: The Uninsured Rate Is At A Five-Year Low. Is Obamacare The Reason? Gallup's ...
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American automaker Ford Motor has selected QNX technology from the technology giant BlackBerry for its next-generation in-car Sync information and entertainment system, replacing Windows from Microsoft. This move by the carmaker is to ...
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The New York Times: Health, Work, Lies On Wednesday, Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said the obvious: losing your job and choosing to work less aren't the same thing. If you lose your job, ...
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Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News The U.S. Postal Service will end a same-day delivery experiment in San Francisco on March 1 after it could not find enough retailers to participate, Bloomberg News reported. The program only generated $760 ...
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Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News John Reinhart has begun as CEO of the Virginia Port Authority and will oversee a restructuring effort already under way, according to the port. Reinhart, who was named to the post in October, comes from ...
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On a rooftop in the Bronx far from the skyscrapers of Manhattan, 4,760 panels soak up the winter rays. Welcome to the solar power boom in New York state. Robert Kline, director of commercial sales for the Ross Solar Group that installed ...
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December housing starts dropped 16%, the largest decline since February 2011, the Commerce Department said Feb. 19. Starts fell to an annual rate of 888,000 units in January from a revised 1.05 million pace in December. Economists had ...
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Prices paid to U.S. producers rose 0.2% in January, the Labor Department reported Feb. 19. Last month's producer price index reading followed a rise of 0.1% in December. Economists' had forecast a 0.1% rise, Bloomberg News reported. The ...
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Trucking accounted for 3,200 of the 113,000 jobs added in January, and the U.S. unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 6.6%, the Labor Department reported Feb. 7. The job increase was below economists' forecasts of 180,000, and ...
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Retail sales fell in January by the most in a year and a half, hurt by bad weather and slow growth in employment and personal income. Sales dropped 0.4%, the largest decrease since June 2012, the Commerce Department said Feb. 13. Poor ...
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Prices of copper – the bedrock industrial metal and a benchmark for gauging the strength of the global economy – are likely to soften further in the coming year as production growth is expected to exceed that of consumption. ...
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