In July of last year, the new Administrator of the EPA, Lisa P. Jackson tasked the enforcement branch of the EPA with “revamping the clean water enforcement program … to raise the bar of federal […]
I blogged previously about open data access provided by the Cities of Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto. These are all examples where city governments have opened public data to the public. Saturday, April 24th in Ottawa […]
Autodesk has announced a new service offering supporting Rural Utility Services (RUS) Standards for Autodesk Utility Design (AUD) at DistribuTECH 2010 in Tampa. By supporting RUS standards with its service offering, AUD helps small […]
The American Clean Energy and Security (Waxman-Markey) bill, which aimed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 17% by 2020 and over 80% by 2050 compared to 2005 levels, was passed by the US House of Representatives, but […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted Tres Amigas’ request for authorization to sell transmission services for a three-way transmission station in New Mexico. The proposed interconnection between the Eastern Interoconnection, Western Interconnection, and […]
According to an article in renewablesbiz, the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) has agreed on something called tradable renewable energy credits (TRECs) that allows renewable energy generated outside the state to count toward Renewable Portfolio […]
After more than two years of development, field validation and implementation, Autodesk has announced the availability of the BIM Deployment Plan: A Practical Framework for Implementing BIM. Model-based design technology is creating enormous opportunities […]
Interesting article in IntelligentUtility containing some preliminary results of a survey conducted by Sierra Energy Group on the intelligent utility. The article makes the point that a migration to the smart grid/intelligent utility environment is […]