At the American Public Power Association (APPA) annual conference in Denver, Michael Howard, President and CEO at EPRI, gave an overview of the major challenged facing the electric power grid and a way forward based […]
At the American Public Power Association (APPA) Annual Conference in Denver one of the recurrent major issues is distributed power generation. It is the elephant that shows up in every room. The last general session […]
At Geospatial World Forum 2014 in Geneva this year Andy Rhoades, Head of Service Protection Knowledge & Information Management Technical Standards and Assurance at Heathrow Airports, gave a fascinating presentation on the accuracy of geolocation […]
This is an update on my previous post about solar PV installations at the World Cup venues in Brazil. Of the World Cup’s 12 venues, three currently have solar photovoltaic (PV) panels installed. Arena Pernambuco […]
Brazil’s World Cup stadiums have the capacity to generate 5.4 MW of solar power 2.5 MW from the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasilia 1.4 MW from Mineirão in Belo Horizonte 1 MW from the […]
The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering focused on open source geospatial software. FOSS4G brings together developers, users, decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation. Through six […]
Earth observation is being revolutionized and democratized by UAVs, small and inexpensive nanosatellites (Planet Labs and Skybox Imaging– Skybox has just been acquired by Google), and by putting high resolution Earth observation cameras on the […]
By 2025 the UN projects there will be 35 megacities (10m+) in comparison to 22 in 2011. Population growth of the top 15 megacities millions, 2001 to 2025 (projection) Tokyo 37m 39m (+5%) New Delhi […]