The 24 MWh battery storage park developed by Duke Energy Renewables to store power generated by the nearby Notrees 153 MW wind farm in west Texas became operational in December 2012. The project was announced […]
Microsoft has announced that Team Foundation Server and Team Foundation Service (TFS), Microsoft’s collaboration platform, now supports Git, the version control system used by many open source projects. There is a plugin for Microsoft Visual […]
In the U.S. buildings are responsible for 72% of U.S. electricity demand, 55% of U.S. natural gas demand, and 40 % of U.S. CO2 emissions. 36% per cent of the buildings electricity load is due […]
At Distributech last week I had a chance to sit down with Bill Menge, Director of Kansas City Power and Light’s (KCP&L) Smart Grid Demonstration Project. Kansas City Power & Light and its partners are […]
Patricia Hoffman, Assistant Secretary in the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Department of Energy (DoE), gave an overview of where the DoE will be focussing its efforts as ARRA funding winds down. Quantifying […]
Today marks the launch of LocationTech, a community of open source projects and consortium of member companies. LocationTech is designed to help broaden adoption of commercial location aware technologies. It is vendor neutral, open to […]
Stephen Berberich, President and Chief Executive Officer of the California Independent System Operator (CaISO), gave one of the keynotes at Distributech 2013 in which he provided insight into what 33% renewables will likely mean for […]
Unlike Canadian surveyors, for example, GIS professionals in Canada are not pressed by law to obtain certification. This fact has led to one of the more common questions in Geomatics circles: is a GIS certification […]