Everytime I attend Distributech I come across something that simply knocks my socks off. Alan McMorran of Open Grid Systems has been working with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) and Electricity North West (ENW) […]
New York’s influential Reforming the Vision (REV) is not only redefining the regulatory model for the State of New York but has become a model for other states. At this year’s Distributech Audrey Zibelman, who […]
At Distributech 2017 in San Diego, the opening keynotes used the word “transformation” to refer to what the electric power industry is going through. Teresa Hansen likened the impact of this transformation to the War […]
Earlier this year on a Sunday renewable power supplied almost all of Germany’s power demand, a major milestone in Germany’s “Energiewende” policy. The transformation of the grid (called by some a revolution) is being driven […]
On December 21, 2016 China launched a 620 kg micro-satellite on a Long March-2D rocket to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions. The TanSat satellite is in a sun synchronous orbit 700 km above the earth […]
A report “Smart Building Market – Global Forecast to 2021” projects that the smart building market will grow by 34 % annually from 2016 through 2021. The market size, estimated at $ 5.7 Billion in […]
At the GeoBIM Building and Infrastructure Conference in Amsterdam, Ingeborg Ligtenberg, Senior Project manager for Mega Projects, described how the Dutch highway authority Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) is piloting a very different approach to highway construction. Rijkswaterstaat […]
The Canadian government has announced a a pan-Canadian policy on climate change including a floor price on carbon beginning in 2018. The Paris agreement commits Canada to a 30 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases […]