According to a recent report from GTM Research solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in 2013 increased 41% over 2012 to reach 4.7 GW. Solar was second only to natural gas in new electricity generating capacity in […]
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been writing about the state of geo awareness and education in Canada, and speculating on how it may be improved. The overall message has been the need for […]
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) in a close decision approved a formula for determining the value of electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) generation, in other words, what the utility will pay customers for the […]
The Asia Pacific region is a primary driver of global urban development trends and is where some of the world’s the most ambitious attempts to direct those trends to national development goals. Increasingly, smart city […]
McKinsey&Company has published interesting interviews with mayors of U.S. cities on how open data not only makes for more transparent government, but also improves the effectiveness and efficiency of services. Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South […]
DigitalGlobe, one of the first companies to offer commercial high-resolution earth observation imagery from several satellites (Quickbird, Worldview-1, Worldview-2, and GeoEye), has acquired Spatial Energy, which provides digital imagery and related services to the energy […]
A release of 28 Planet Labs CubeSats known as Flock 1 from the International Space Station (ISS) has been completed. The deployments began Feb. 11. The CubeSats, each about the size of a loaf of […]
At this year’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) BIM National Conference 2014, Peter Trebilcock of Balfour Beatty gave an overview of Balfour Beatty’s extensive BIM experience. Balfour Beatty has 56 live BIM projects across […]