The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just released its annual World Energy Outlook 2013 with projections of energy demand and production through 2035. Energy demand and supply Energy demand is projected to increase by a […]
In recent years, high–resolution spaceborne imagery (HRSI), up to 50cm spatial resolution, has become readily available for no cost using such applications as Google Earth and Bing Maps. Thanks to this new availability of free […]
GoGeomatics Canada and the Alberta Geomatics Group (AGG) have come together to present the AGG GoGeomatics Calgary Social on December 11th at 6p.m. This is the first time GoGeomatics Canada and the AGG have teamed […]
The dramatic reduction in the price of solar panels has made solar PV competitive with the central power grid in some parts of the country. For the first time in 100 years companies like SolarCity […]
President Obama has issued Executive Order 13653 Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change It describes the impacts of climate change as an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, more […]
Coal-fired power generation in the U.S. In 2011 42% of US electric power production was from coal. But according to the EPA from April 2011 to April 2012 the amount of power generated from coal […]
About a year ago the Obama administration announced a Big Data Research and Development Initiative to focus on extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data. It included an initial investment […]
Decoupling first appeared in the 1980s to help utilities overcome what is referred to as the throughput incentive which ties a utility’s revenue to its sales of electricity. The throughput incentive motivates the utility to […]