Most US states have some form of renewable energy objective. There have been several unsuccessful attempts to enact a national renewable energy or energy-related emissions objective. One of the problems arising from the lack of […]
Last year NV Energy exceeded one GW of renewable energy capacity driven by Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) which requires that at least 25 percent of the company’s retail energy sales come from renewable energy […]
At the recent GITA ANZ conference in Sydney, Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) mentioned in his talk that the OGC’s GeoSMS standard for geotagging SMS or text messages had […]
A survey of Canadian commuters released last week by Statistics Canada reported that nationally 82% of commuters drove to work, 12% took public transit and 6% walked or bicycled. On average getting to work took […]
The Government of Ontario has been very active in pushing a revolution in electric power in the province. In 2004 as part of Ontario’s Smart Metering Initiative, the Ontario Government legislated that all electric power […]
In January 2010, Canada formally notified the United Nations that in line with the Copenhagen Accord Canada committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 17 per cent by 2020 from 2005 levels. At that time […]
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has approved a $4.9 billion plan to complete a nuclear unit at its Bellefonte site, near Hollywood, Alabama. The plant is about 55% complete and is expected to go into […]
One of the causes of the massive problems at Fukushima Daichi after the magnitude 9 earthquake earlier this year was loss of offsite power, which resulted in loss of cooling function and to partial meltdown […]