AT&T and Silver Spring Hook Up Over the Smart Grid

One of the largest smart grid infrastructure players and one of the largest U.S. phone companies are linking up. AT&T and Silver Spring Networks, a 7-year-old company that sells smart grid networking gear to utilities, have announced a deal this morning by which Silver Spring will be able use AT&T’s network to connect its smart [...]

US High Speed Rail

The first series of this column was written on high speed rail in America. With an introduction to all the nation’s proposed corridors covered, this series will focus on the state of high speed rail around the world. An examination of already established high speed networks in industrialized countries and growingnetworks in developing countries will be compared and contrasted to what is being done (or just talked about then postponed) around the US. The purpose of this series is to highlight how far America isfalling behind the rest of the world in giving its citizens mobility.

Renewable Energy Tax Credits

As part of the $850 billion economic stimulus, a Senate panel today approved $31 billion in renewable energy tax credits. This is just one, in a series of recent events, that point to now being the time to load up on clean energy and related infrastructure stocks. But before I get into the other reasons [...]

Infrastructure Stocks

This topic has been all the rage lately, so let’s get right to it…