At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Brad Williams, Vice President of Utilities Industry Strategy at Oracle, presented recent results from a survey of of 151 North American senior-level utilities […]
At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Mathieu Viau, a researcher at Hydro Quebec’s IREQ research centre gave a presentation on how he has been using a semantic layer to […]
At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Lincoln Frost-Hunt, Director of Enterprise IT at Hydro One, gave a riveting presentation on how one utility has evolved from a company that […]
In the view of many the utility industry is in the initial phase of adoption of a new generation of IT characterized by real-time, big data and analytics. I blogged previously about a new application […]
One of the things that has struck me after a number of years travelling and visiting utilities and telecoms world wide is the similarity of the process used to design and manage utility and telecommunications […]
The Ottawa Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council last evening hosted a very informative presentation by Jamie Shipley and Thomas Green from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) on lessons learned from CMHC’s […]
South Africa is a net energy importer. It has very limited oil and gas reserves, and has relied on coal and peat for 72% of its primary energy requirements. 67% of its petroleum is imported, […]
The Chang’e-3 mission will land a robotic rover on the moon. The lander’s premier instrument is a wide-angle extreme ultraviolet camera that is intended to monitor the Earth’s plasmasphere, a halo of ionized gases surrounding […]