The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted a draft study plan on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for review to the EPA’s Science Advisory Board, comprised of a group of independent scientists. The scope of the […]
I’ve blogged about an Autodesk Labs project called Galileo. Galileo is a technology preview for 3D city modeling for planners, architects, and designers, who need to view future designs of structures in the context of […]
As I have blogged previously, the Province of Ontario has led North America in some aspects of smart grid deployment, in replacing coal with clean energy, and in implementing a feed-in-tariff program to encourage solar […]
As I blogged previously, expanding the US electric transmission network is believed to be essential to improve reliability, remove conjestion, and to enable access to new sources of renewable energy. Section 216 of the Energy […]
South Africa is a net energy importer. It has very limited oil and gas reserves, and has relied on coal and peat for 72% of its primary energy requirements. 67% of its petroleum is imported, […]
Estimates of the transmission buildout required in the US to bring renewable electric power to market have ranged from 3,000 to 19,000 miles of new transmission lines. The Brattle Group has estimated the total investment […]
The Cape Wind Project, an offshore wind project off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, was proposed in 2001 and only received final approval last year. Getting regulatory approval required about a decade because this is the […]
The “levelized cost”, which is the present value of the total cost of building and operating a generating plant over its financial life, is an attempt to make the costs of different technologies comparable. The […]