Earlier this year on a Sunday renewable power supplied almost all of Germany’s power demand, a major milestone in Germany’s “Energiewende” policy. The transformation of the grid (called by some a revolution) is being driven […]
Anne Pramaggiore, President and CEO of ComEd of Chicago, was the first at the Smart Gird Interoperability Panel 2016 Grid Modernization Summit in Washington DC to call the current business transformation that the electric power […]
Introduction Building Information Models are comprehensive digital representations of buildings which include 3D geometry and associated data. They are widely used for designing, engineering, and constructing buildings (vertical BIM) and infrastructure (horizontal BIM). Owners are […]
The world is changing. Microsoft has been doing things in the open source world for some time, but this last week it has gotten wild. Microsoft has just kicked off launch activities for SQL […]
Earlier this week Github published a graph showing the relative popularity of programming languages among GitHub development project repositories, both private and public, for 2008 to 2015. Some things don’t seem too surprising. Javascript is at […]
At DistribuTECH 2015, Raiford Smith of CPS Energy and Jason P. Handley of Duke Energy, presented their perspectives on the smart grid; what is motivating it in terms of business and technology drivers, a roadmap […]
At DistribuTECH 2015 the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has announced the launch of the OpenFMB Project, a special SGIP working group designed to leverage existing standards and structured processes to create a new paradigm […]
The smart grid requires exchanging data between different devices from many manufacturers in the field. Traditional utility technologies are very often vendor silos utilizing proprietary hardware, telecommunications and software platforms that communicate to a centralized […]