I’ve blogged on multiple occasions, most recently here and here, about the workforce challenges facing the utility industry in the world’s advanced economies. At today’s Gridweek lunch session, Pat Ryan of the IEEE PES said […]
Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the US, in this morning’s keynote at the Gridweek conference in Washington DC, challenged the electric utility industry to do what the government iniitated at Veterans’ Affairs and what was taken […]
Yesterday at the FOSS4G conference in Denver, one of the workshops that was new this year was a newcomer event targetted on folks who were new to FOSS4G and new to open source geospatial. I’ve […]
Autodesk has announced that the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) exporter for Revit is now available as open source code, licensed under LGPL. Revit has supported IFC file export since 2005. Models can be exported to […]
Over the past few years I have been seeing a number of announcements related to renewable energy from the US Department of Defence (DoD). DoD has a stated goal of 25 percent of all energy […]
The proposed American Jobs Act (AJA) contains provisions for increasing investment in infrastructure, estimated at about $100 billion, including immediate investments in infrastructure and a bipartisan National Infrastructure Bank, for modernizing roads, rail, airports and […]
In 2007 I was in Hobart, Tasmania at the Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial International Conference, and I was fascinated to hear a presentation by Tim Barker and Neale Hooper of the Government of Queensland called […]
The Frankfurt School UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance reports that $211 billion was invested in renewable energy in 2010, about one third more than the $160 billion in 2009. The report, […]