The Government of Australia has endorsed its renewable energy laws that set a target of supplying 20% of Australia’s energy needs from renewable sources by 2020. The legislation will come into effect January 2011. Australia’s […]
China is drafting a five-year energy plan for 2011 through 2015 which will include smart grid technology as a key industry focus. An analyst at Essence Securities Ltd has estimated that China may spend up […]
In May The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued its annual report on U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions for 2009. Energy-related CO2 emissions have dropped by 7%, faster than expected. About a third of the drop […]
According to reports jointly issued by the United Nations Environment Program and the Renewable Energy Policy Network and reported in the Globe and Mail, clean energy is becoming the predominant form of new power generation. […]
Autodesk has announced that MapGuide Enterprise 2011 and Topobase Web 2011 have been certified as compliant with the the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) v1.1.1. WMS enables interoperability with WMS consuming applications. […]
To sustain a 7+% rate of economic expansion India will need to improve the reliability of its grid, accelerate rural electrification, and add new sources of energy. The Indian Government has created the “India Smart […]