I blogged about the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) report, Transportation Electrification: A Technology Overview, which provided projections of the commercial rollout of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), gives an overveiw of vehicle, plug-in and other […]
The Air Resources Board (ARB) held its fourth auction of greenhouse gas allowances on August 16, 2013. The auction included a Current Auction of 2013 allowances and an Advance Auction of 2016 allowances. The Auction […]
I have blogged frequently about the world-wide trend toward free and open access to government spatial data. In general this has meant that instead of users paying for access to spatial data, the government pays […]
It is incredible how rapidly wind power generation has grown over the past decade. The latest Global Wind Report Annual Market Update 2012 from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reports that the 2012 global […]
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2010, the BRICS countries Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa contributed about one-quarter of world GDP, compared to 16% in 1990. Also in 2010, […]
State of the world’s climate According to the 2012 State of the Climate report released August, 2013 by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Four major independent datasets show 2012 was among the 10 warmest years […]
In this fascinating study the authors present a way of including the costs of air pollution (sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, ammonia, particulate matter, and CO2) into the standard set of national accounts […]
The White House has just released a report The Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resilience to Weather Outages that was prepared by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the Department of Energy’s Office […]