Smart Energy Professionals Insights on The Week’s Hot Button News

RENO, Nev. - Jan. 22, 2016 - PRLog -- Smart Energy and the Climate Change are intertwined.  A lot of changes are coming to the Grid - Renewable Energy technologies are being deployed worldwide; the electric grid is becoming a ‘smart grid’.  Every week brings news on events that will have widespread implications and each week SEU will bring you the views about important issues, such as the smart grid, privacy and security gleaned from the discussions and surveys of smart energy professionals. With the New Year, SEU has just started an exciting new feature: “SEU Spotlights Discussion by Its Readers from the Week That Was.”  This brings you the viewpoints of the smart energy “person in the street” on the major happenings of the week.

Every day, Smart Energy News readers go to SEU’s twitter page to discuss articles that have piqued their interest. Each week readers participate in lively and far reaching discussions with thousands of comments about the major news articles in the news. Some news items draw as many 10,000 comments on one news item!

Each news item being discussed usually has 3 to 5 main discussion threads. We select up to 5 of the most discussed news items, along with the main threads of the discussions and some representative comments to share with readers. This week, the two articles drawing most attention are GE’s Sale of its Appliance Business, and Obama administration’s decision to pause coal leasing on federal lands.

Another popular weekly news item on the SEU website is the “Smart Energy Virtual Town Hall”. Each week, readers to respond to a question on a breaking news story of the week. . Thousands of readers respond to the survey every week and the responses are tallied and published on the SEU website. This week’s survey, on a really hot button topic, asks whether net metering customers should be charged extra fees for accessing the Grid. The results show a widespread range of opinions on the issue and are published SEU website in the Spotlight section.

SEU is in the forefront of smart energy news and millions of readers count on us to bring them timely and relevant news as it happens. Over 175 million page views are served up each month at www.smartenergyuniverse.com