One of the major challenges facing the world’s electric power companies is data quality, which I have blogged about on multiple occasions (here, here, here and here). At Autodesk University Frank Markus provided an instructive overview of how Swissgrid […]
The Carbon Disclosure Project’s CDP Cities is a voluntary climate change reporting platform for city governments. Each year, CDP invites a sample of cities to participate. In 2011 43 cities participated. The 2011 CPD Cities report is […]
According to the National Infrastructure Plan 2011 HM Government plans to provide £5 billion by 2014-15 while it is hoping to planning to attract £20 billion from private investors. The Treasury hopes two-thirds of the of the funding […]
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS) for power plants is scheduled to be issued by Dec 16 2011. Estimates of the impact range from 10 GW to 35 or even 60 […]
Dan Campbell is an urban planner at the City of Vancouver. I’ve seen and heard several of Dan’s presentation over the past few years in Singapore, Bellevue, and other places and I always look forward […]
One of the most important goals of utilities in this time of aging and shrinking workforces is improving the productivity of operations staff. Many utilities are finding that many tasks that used to require sending staff into […]
Project Parsec is a technology preview that is available for free down load on Autodesk Labs. It is designed to work with AutoCAD Map 3D and enables you to import and map geometries and attributes to […]
One of the companies participating at Autodesk University this year is entegra. Based in Germany entegra has been providing substation design solutions for fourteen years. Their first customer was EnBW Regional AG, the third […]