Bloom Energy tacks to mission critical practices, fear -- and a second factory by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 21 2012)

...on-reduction pitch -- damn the bucks, full green ahead -- just doesn't work, fuel-cell manufacturer Bloom Energy has opened up a Mission Critical Practice to drive the sale of its products to the professionally p... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Bloom Energy   Bloom Boxes

NTT America talks about Bloom Energy fuel cell decision - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 4 2011)

NTT America announced last week it was buying Bloom Energy fuel cells for its San Jose, California data center.  The installation will be the first fueled by ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   NTT   Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy starts to grow up - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 1 2011)

Out in Sunnyvale, California, low-key Bloom Energy shows signs of expansion. The fuel cell/green-energy-as-a-service (g-e-a-s) company won AT&T as a c... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney   eBay

green opportunities in u.s.a. data center closings - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 21 2011)

...h a fixed rate on electricity.  If that's not workable, maybe a longer-term purchase agreement with Bloom Energy where Bloom handles the capital expenditures and recurring costs and you just buy power at a fixed ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   The New York Times   Department of Homeland Security

Bloom Energy Serves up Electricity; will Corporate America follow? - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 27 2011)

Fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is going into the service business. The company is now going to sell energy as a service -- shades ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Bloom Energy   Bloom Energy Servers

Overall Data Center Growth to Kill Any Green Savings - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 21 2011)

...e want to hit the Gates Foundation over the head, grab a couple billion in funding, and throw it at Bloom Energy to build a couple of factories worth of production in Africa! Is there a way out of this mess?  T... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Doug Mohney   IBM

Bloom Energy announces a production ramp-up - or are they? by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 20 2010)

Tight-lipped Bloom Energy (www.bloomenergy.com) says it is going to ramp up production to produce one of its energy servers p... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Bloom Energy

Storage: Ugly in the Green Closet - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 12 2010)

Green-a-holics may love wind and solar, but the breeze comes and goes while the sun goes down every night. Being able to store power is the ugly part of best-loved green options and it's not easy. Beacon Power (www.beaconpower.com) is getting buzz this week because it landed a $43 million Department of Energy loan guarantee for a 20 megawatt flywheel plant in Stephentown, New York. Yes, you ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Department of Energy   Doug Mohney   Bloom Energy

Looking Towards the Post Green Era - by Doug Moheny

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 28 2010)

Comment "Thanks for your 'edit' - any other comments welcome" - Carbon1

...operations to a carbon-clean data center makes sense if there are cost savings tied in.  Similarly, Bloom Energy has found attractors because in certain circumstances it can save money and lower carbon footprint. (Read Full Article)

3 Comments Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Bloom Energy

Energy Star for Data Centers - Does it really matter? - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 17 2010)

...ld have been nice to see some brownie points thrown in for using green-er energy (i.e. wind, solar, Bloom Energy server, nuclear).  One would think that a less PUE-efficient (gaming) data center powered by renewa... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Verizon Business   Doug Mohney

TANSTAAF vs. Win-Win by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 28 2010)

...nd high energy taxes. Finding win-win happiness for a green energy solution is a lot of work.  The Bloom Energy server concept has the potential for being a win-win for everyone since -- if it scales according t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Bloom Energy

reading the tea leaves of bloom energy - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 23 2010)

Comment "Or, is it possible that the whole thing simply doesn't work as well as they claim? Rupert Goodwins at ZDNet ..." - judgecorp

Having introduced its concept of the "energy server,” Bloom Energy now seems to be content to shut the doors and live off the press clippings generated by its Februar... (Read Full Article)

1 Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Bloom Energy

Green Effort versus Green Washing? By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 19 2010)

..." I am a bit more annoyed at eBay's new Green party line -- famously parroted by John Doerr at the Bloom Energy press conference -- of it being a "Green" company because people use the auction site as a recyclin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Data Center Knowledge   Facebook

The age of the energy server? by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 25 2010)

Comment "One energy server is certainly out of the scope of most bank loans for that matter – each server costs ..." - OliV

Bloom Energy has put its cards on the table - a cost-effective fuel cell and a new way to think about energy cre... (Read Full Article)

1 Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Bloom Energy