The dramatic reduction in the price of solar panels has made solar PV competitive with the central power grid in some parts of the country. For the first time in 100 years companies like SolarCity […]
SkySat-1 was launched on November 21, 2013 from Yasny, Russia on a Dnepr rocket. SkySat-1 is the first of a planned constellation of small 24 Earth observation satellites. SkySat-1 has a mass of 100 kg […]
OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform. It is free and open-source software released under the terms of the Apache License and is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity. Oracle, now […]
At a France-Netherlands BIM Geospatial Meeting in Paris, Marcel Reuvers of Geonovum gave an important update on the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Land and Infrastucture Domain Working Group’s (DWG) LandXML/ InfraGML initiative. By way of […]
President Obama has signed a Presidential Memorandum on Federal Leadership on Energy Management. It directs the Federal Government to source 20 % of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Currently about 7% of the […]
According to allegations by the FTC the “Brightest Flashlight Free” app which has been downloaded by tens of millions of times by users of the Android operating system, transmitted users’ precise location and unique device […]
I’ve blogged previously about the challenges that solar PV and companies like Solar City pose for the traditional asset-based utility business model. For the first time in 100 years companies like SolarCity are providing consumers […]
Lux Research recently released a report Batteries Included: Gauging Near-Term Prospect for Solar/Energy Storage Systems that projects that the coupled Solar and energy storage (lithium ion batteries) market will grow to $2.8 billion in 2018. […]