As I have blogged on several occasions Ontario is in several ways leading the charge in the green power revolution in North America. Nuclear power is one of the reasons that Ontario already has one of […]
I’ve blogged about the FCC’s broadband map before. Last year the National Broadband Map was launched with more than 25 million records showing where broadband Internet service is available, the technology used to provide the […]
Last week Jackie Ng, developer of the Maestro authoring tool and major contributor to MapGuide Open Source, which is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project, conducted a survey of MapGuide Open Source users to which […]
Power plants are covered by federal regulations related to air quality, water quality and solid waste. In the area of air quality in 2011 EPA issued a rule that places federal limits on hazardous air […]
Project Vasari is a simplified design tool for creating conceptual building designs with integrated analysis for energy and carbon. One of its big differentiators from products like Sketchup is that it is intended to fit […]
I blogged recently about some remarkable statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that the labor force participation rate for workers 65-and-over has gone up dramatically since the 1990s. A new CIBC poll […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has formed a new Energy and Utilities Domain Working Group (DWG) that will focus on the global energy and utilities community including electric, gas, oil and water services. The intent […]
Transmission constraints Estimates of the transmission buildout required in the US to reduce congestion and to bring renewable electric power to market have ranged from 19,000 to 50,000 miles of new transmission lines. The Brattle […]