According to BDEW, Germany produced 67.9 billion kWh of renewable energy in the first six months of 2012. That’s 25 percent of Germany’s power production and an increase of 19.5 percent over the same period […]
Project Vasari is a technology preview of a simplified design tool for creating conceptual building designs with integrated analysis for energy and carbon. Vasari is for early concept work. One of its big differentiators from […]
With the slowdown in the EU economy and the large volume of free allowances, Europe’s cap-and-trade scheme (EU ETS) for greenhouse emissions (GHG) has resulted in a price of carbon of €7 per tonne of […]
In the UK the 1790’s were responsible for two major advances, the elimination of scurvey in the Royal Navy through the issuance of limes, and the creation of the Ordnance Survey tasked with identifying sites […]
Katherine Hamilton, very influential in energy circles and ex-president of the Gridwise Alliance, an organization representing a broad range of the energy supply chain from utilities to emerging tech companies, has just made a post […]
I have blogged previously about the UK National Infrastructure Plan which plans to invest about £250 billion in the next five yrs and £ 400 billion in the 10 yrs on infrastructure including high speed […]
The OSGEO Board of Directors has announced that the global FOSS4G 2012 conference scheduled to be held in September in Beijing has been cancelled. It’s unfortunate, but FOSS4G has being growing successfully, rapidly and internationally […]
China’s electricity demand is expected to triple by 2035. According to Greentech Media, in 2012, China’s installed generation capacity and quantity of electricity produced will become the largest globally. China plans to invest $490 billion […]