Friday, November 16, 2012
A sampling of stories from the past two years.
Hello! Welcome to Arlington Patch. We have a large number of people today who seem to have stumbled across our site perhaps for the first time thanks to HuffPost Politics. If you aren't familiar with Patch, we're AOL's hyperlocal news arm. We have more than 900 sites across the country, including more than 30 in the Northern Virginia suburbs outside of Washington, D.C. If you are new, we hope you'll stick around and check out the site. Below, I've put together a few links from the past couple of years that have had broad appeal. Thanks for stopping by! Jason Spencer Editor, Arlington Patch Arlington has an electric startup scene. Tech startups here like Opower, UberOffices, Gridpoint, uKnow.com and more are working hard, enjoying success …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Courthouse-based tech startup hosted governor Wednesday.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell toured the Arlington-based tech startup Opower on Wednesday and asked what he could do to help attract and retain similar businesses — and got a fairly simple answer. "Just… more." The company's brain trust talked about how they compete with giants like Google and Facebook, about battling the perception that Northern Virginia tech jobs are exclusively with government contractors, about the need to create a culture of innovation and idea sharing. Located in the Courthouse neighborhood, Opower has about 200 employees at its Arlington headquarters. It has about another 70 in San Francisco and a small office in London. The tech startup's business model is based on the idea that the cheapest energy is the energy you …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Opower achieved 1 terawatt-hour milestone this month.
Opower's bright idea is starting to pay off. The Courthouse-based company announced this month that, after five years, its software has helped people across the globe save 1 terawatt-hour of energy. The business expects to reach that goal a second time by the end of 2012. One terawatt-hour equals enough energy to power a city of 200,000 people for one year, according to the company. It represents about $120 million in savings to people around the world. And it's more than half the energy that was generated by the U.S. solar industry in 2011. "We're really excited that we got this," Carly Baker, an Opower policy adviser, told Patch. Opower's success proves that there isn't just one magic bullet when it comes to clean energy, Baker said. "…
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The former governor and U.S. Senate candidate toured Courthouse-based OPower and called that company's story "inspirational."
A little over five years ago, Dan Yates and Alex Laskey were trying to figure out where they should start their business — OPower, a business that would work with utility companies to help their customers conserve energy and save money. “Consistently, going from person to person, we got feedback that Virginia was a great place to start a business,” Yates told a small crowd of Northern Virginia business leaders Wednesday. “That’s an applause line,” U.S. Senate candidate and former Gov. Tim Kaine interjected. The crowd chuckled and complied. Kaine and U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., toured OPower before meeting with more than 30 area business leaders last week. It was the first day of Kaine’s two-week tour of Virginia in which he’s laying out …
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