The Government of Australia has released drafts of bills which will set up Australia’s carbon pricing plan for public comment. The Clean Energy Legislative Package includes: Clean Energy Bill 2011 (which sets up the carbon […]
Next Wednesday August 3rd together with Energy Central we are presenting a webcast on Model-based design for the electric power industry: defining a more intelligent process for substation and electric distribution design. […]
Six standards have been approved for the Catalog of Standards, a guide for all involved with Smart Grid-related technology. The six standards were apporved by the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), which was set up […]
Smart grid means different things to different utilities in different geographies. In many parts of North America, the UK and Denmark, for example, the emphasis has been and continues to be on smart meters and […]
Brazil has become the economic powerhouse of South America. Over the next few years Brazil will be getting even more international attention because Brazil will be hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the […]
The impact of shale gas on the US economy is hard to underestimate. The most important impact is that shale gas has pushed natural gas prices down and kept them there. Incredibly in 2009 there […]
Shale gas has dramatically impacted the US natural gas market and US energy prices in general. A recent US Energy Informattion Administration (EIA) report has estimated world reserves of technically recoverable shale gas, meaning gas […]
New drilling technology including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has made possible the profitable extraction of natural gas from geologic formations, primarily shale, that are uneconomic for conventional natural gas production. The impact of shale […]