According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance global smart grid investment was up by about 5% in 2013 compared to 2012. 2013 $14.9 billion 2012 $14.2 billion In 2013 for the first time China was the […]
Australia chaired a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Sydney over the weekend to talk about the challenges facing the global economy. One of the fundamental problems is finding the funding […]
A very interesting article by Brendan Greeley in Bloomberg Businessweek points out that with respect to broadband penetration in the OECD, over the past decade the Unites States has fallen from 10th to 16th. By […]
Indoor mapping is already supported by Google and Bing. Micello is in the business of creating indoor maps of major venues around the world. Most of the activity seems to be focussed on consumers and […]
Markets and Markets has released a report that analyzes the LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) market by product types (airborne, mobile, terrestrial and short range) and applications (government, civil engineering, military/defence/aerospace, corridor mapping, topographic surveying, […]
The U.S. Energy Information Adminstration’s (EIA) AEO2014 Early Release Overview has been released and the Reference Case changes projections from last year’s AEIO2013, some significantly. EIA Reference Case projections tend to be conservative. One reason […]
In February 2011, the Department of Energy (DoE) launched its SunShot Initiative to make solar energy cost-competitive with traditional energy sources by the end of the decade. DoE has just announced that utility-scale PV industry […]
Itron has published its first annual Itron Resourcefulness Index. It is a study based on a survey of utility executives from the gas, water and electricity industries as well as utility consumers. 800 informed consumers […]