I have blogged previously about how rare it is to find a single shared database containing all the utility infrastructure (water, sanitary and storm sewers, electric power, telecommunications, gas, and heating) geospatial data for a […]
Coal is currently the source of 41% of the world’s electrical power generation and responsible for 20% of the world’s CO2 emissions. In 2006 about 49% of US , 79% of China’s, 46% of German, […]
Mexico City is one of the world’s largest cities, with an estimated metropolitan area population of over 20 million. Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is one of the world’s largest energy utilities with 34.2 milllion […]
Brazil was tenth among the world’s countries in smart grid investment in 2010, and is expect to rise to sixth in the future. It is forecasted that the smart grid market in South America will […]
Smart grid is a world wide phenomenon that is attracting significant investment. In the US smart grid investment over the next two decades has been estimated at about $400 billion. The expected investment in the […]