I blogged previously about a smart grid project being developed by a consortium of Korean firms including LG, SK Telecom and KT on Jeju Island south of Seoul. Since then it has been announced that […]
The European Commission’s smart grid initiative has been launched. The European Electricity Grid Initiative (EEGI) proposes a nine year European research, development and demonstration program to be initiated by electricity transmission and distribution network operators […]
One of the areas that researchers involved in the INSPIRE initiative are putting a lot of effort these days is quantifying the business benefits of an open spatial data infrastructure. At the recent INSPIRE conference […]
The Government of Australia has awarded A$100 million for a smart-grid, smart-city project to a consortium of CSIRO, IBM Australia, AGL, GE Energy, TransGrid, Newcastle City Council and the NSW Government with the objective to […]
The Government of Australia has endorsed its renewable energy laws that set a target of supplying 20% of Australia’s energy needs from renewable sources by 2020. The legislation will come into effect January 2011. Australia’s […]
China is drafting a five-year energy plan for 2011 through 2015 which will include smart grid technology as a key industry focus. An analyst at Essence Securities Ltd has estimated that China may spend up […]
In May The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued its annual report on U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions for 2009. Energy-related CO2 emissions have dropped by 7%, faster than expected. About a third of the drop […]
According to reports jointly issued by the United Nations Environment Program and the Renewable Energy Policy Network and reported in the Globe and Mail, clean energy is becoming the predominant form of new power generation. […]