On April 14, 2017 Secretary of Energy Rick Perry issued a memorandum directing preparation of a study to examine whether the retirement of many baseload plants (mostly coal-fired) are premature and whether their retirement reduces […]
Innovation in spatial technology is transforming some of the world’s most important economic sectors. The world will need to spend $57 trillion on infrastructure through 2030 just to keep up with global GDP growth. To […]
The world’s global coal-fired power generation plants provides around 40% of the world’s electricity. This fleet is the youngest it has been for decades, with more than 500 GW added since 2010, mostly in emerging […]
I blogged recently about UtiliSocial, a cloud-based system from DataCapable that mines social media and then generates map visualizations using a GIS. UtiliSocial combs social media channels for specific terms and topics related to power […]
Immersed concrete structures, which were constructed in Roman harbours from about 55 BCE to 115 CE, have remained intact for 2000 years. In contrast modern concrete structures begin to deteriorate after several decades. Caesarea was […]
Normally when customers experience loss of power, the utility does not know about it until customers call the utility to report the problem. With the advent of social media such as Twitter, Facebook and others, […]
There has been impressive progress in developing open standards for the integration of geospatial and AEC (architecture, engineering and constcruction) views of city infrastructure which provides a standards-based basis for full-lifecycle management from design through […]
At GeoBusiness 2017 in London, Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis, argued passionately for improving the efficency of the construction industry, which is 8% of the UK’s GDP. Digitalization, in which BIM + geospatial play a key […]