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California's fourth cap-and-trade auction sells allowances 14 million tons of CO2 26 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
The Air Resources Board (ARB) held its fourth auction of greenhouse gas allowances on August 16, 2013. The auction included a Current Auction of 2013 allowances and an Advance Auction of 2016 allowanc...
Who pays for public access to open data ? 22 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
I have blogged frequently about the world-wide trend toward free and open access to government spatial data. In general this has meant that instead of users paying for access to spatial data, the gov...
Global installed wind power generation capacity reaches 283 GW 22 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
It is incredible how rapidly wind power generation has grown over the past decade. The latest Global Wind Report Annual Market Update 2012 from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reports that the ...
Brazil's unique energy profile is one of the cleanest in the world 22 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2010, the BRICS countries Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa contributed about one-quarter of world GDP, compared to 16...
Leaked draft UN 5th Assessment Report relates energy related emissions to global climate change 20 Aug 2013 | 10:23 pm
State of the world's climate According to the 2012 State of the Climate report released August, 2013 by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Four major independent datasets show 2012 was among...
Adding the social cost of air pollution could make coal generated electric power 60% more expensive in the United States 16 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
In this fascinating study the authors present a way of including the costs of air pollution (sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, ammonia, particulate matter, and CO2) into the...
Economic impact of weather-related power outages estimated at $18 billion to $33 billion annually 15 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
The White House has just released a report The Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resilience to Weather Outages that was prepared by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the Dep...
An open source perspective on the Open Geospatial Consortium standards process 14 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
I blogged previously about the OGC GeoPackage specification being available for public comment. Chris Holmes of OpenGeo, who has been a major contributor to the open source geospatial community since...
15 top U.S. states for smart grid policy, customer engagement, and technology including GIS 14 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
The Grid Wise Alliance (GWA) and Smart Grid Policy Center (SGPC), the research arm of the GridWise Alliance, have created the Grid Modernization Index (GMI), which has been applied to rank U.S. state...
MapGears joins LocationTech open source geospatial initiative 14 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am
Andrew Ross ot the LocationTech open source geospatial initiative that is part of the Eclipse Foundation has just announced MapGears and Daniel Morissette as a new member of LocationTech. LocationTec...
