April 3 Europe launched the first Sentinel-1A satellite of the €8.4-billion Earth monitoring Copernicus program, which is managed by the European Commission. This was the first of a constellation of six Sentinel families which are […]
The results of an analysis of a survey of 241 public sector officials and 202 senior-level real estate executives (developers, investors, lenders and advisors) conducted by the Urban Land Institute and EY have just been […]
In New Hampshire in 2006 the Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) converted a coal-fired plant at Schiller Station to wood pellets. The Northern Wood Power at Schiller Station is capable of 50 MW and […]
Open government data is a key business resource for hundreds of U.S.-based companies. Previous studies have estimated the broad economic value of open government data, but Open Data 500 is the first to take an […]
Building Information Modeling (BIM) has achieved incredible penetration in the vertical construction market in North America and in several Northern European and Asian countries. The McGraw-Hill Construction report Business Value of BIM in North America […]
Energy efficiency markets provide goods and services that reduce energy consumption. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its first Energy Efficiency Market Report which attempts to quantify investments and market outcomes from avoided energy […]
According to Lawrence Livermore National Labs’ annual energy report, U.S. energy consumption in 2013 increased by 2.3 quadrillion BTUs (quads) or 2.4% to 97.4 quads. 2008 99.2 quads2009 94.62010 98.02011 97.32012 95.12013 97.4 Most energy […]
In 2009 there were about 1019 transistors shipped in 2009, or over 1 billion per person. It is estimated that the number of smartphones, tablets and PCs in use will reach about 7.3 billion units […]