President Obama has issued Executive Order 13653 Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change It describes the impacts of climate change as an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, more […]
Coal-fired power generation in the U.S. In 2011 42% of US electric power production was from coal. But according to the EPA from April 2011 to April 2012 the amount of power generated from coal […]
About a year ago the Obama administration announced a Big Data Research and Development Initiative to focus on extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data. It included an initial investment […]
Decoupling first appeared in the 1980s to help utilities overcome what is referred to as the throughput incentive which ties a utility’s revenue to its sales of electricity. The throughput incentive motivates the utility to […]
At the official release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: The Physical Science Basis Nov 12 2013 Thomas Stocker, co-chair of Working Group 1 on the Physical Science Basis, summarized the WG1 findings. One of […]
At the Space-Time Insight annual SI World conference this year, Dave Haak of Accenture gave a riveting overview of the research that Accenture has conducted on smart grid deployment including a survey of utility executives […]
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) online about innovative green building technologies. The GSA Green Proving Ground (GPG) program is intended to collect information from industry, commercial organizations, […]
At the inaugural meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), Dave Wolman of NIST announced that the next NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards 3.0 will be released in December for […]