Yesterday Planet Labs launched 88 Dove satellites to orbit. They were launched on a PSLV rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Planet Labs now operates 144 satellites in low Earth orbit. […]
New rules for commercially operating UAVs in the U.S. have been published by the FAA as Part 107 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. These cover commercial uses of drones weighing less than 55 pounds. First […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced today the initiation of a three-phase project to develop interoperability standards for underground infrastructure. The project is supported by the Fund for the City of New York and its […]
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 […]