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A detailed map of block-by-block energy use has been created by the Columbia University Engineering School with data from the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. The interactive map demonstrates the energy used to heat and cool buildings, which accounts for two-thirds of the energy used in the city. The research built a statistical [...]
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The Solar Panels Suitability Checker provided by Solar Panels UK provides a unique visual representation of a homeowners roof, and its potential for solar panels. The individual rooftop view indicates the direction that panels should be positioned to achieve maximum energy collection. The site uses high-resolution GeoEye imagery along with a sunlight density overlay. Solar [...]
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The Energy for a Green Society (ERG) project has received funding to develop wireless sensor networks to monitor and control energy consumption in buildings. The three-year and €25.7 million project will develop wireless sensor technology that can be commercialized in order to retrofit buildings with this smart technology. The effort ties with the European 2020 [...]
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The routing of the Keystone XL Pipeline that will bring crude oil from Canada’s tar sands to Texas has been an environmental rallying point, largely due to routing through the Sandhills area of Nebraska that would have brought it over the Ogallala aquifer. The rerouting decision, announced Monday at the Nebraska Capitol, avoids confrontation with [...]
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has launched a new website to make its data accessible at developer.nrel.gov. The first data set that has been made available is the location of alternative fueling stations from electricity, biodiesel, ethanol and natural gas. The data is primed for the development of a mobile location-based application or the addition [...]
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The Southern Methodists University Geothermal Laboratory has completed a detailed map of the geothermal resources in the United states with a grant from Google.org. The detailed research and resulting map indicate that there are ample stores of green power to be generated by the Earth’s heat via currently accessible technology. The research is aimed at [...]
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $750,000 grant to a consortium of 20 U.S. universities, two national labs and three international partners for the new Sustainable Cities – People, Infrastructures and the Energy-Climate-Water Nexus project. The grant seeks to develop harmonized methods, open datasets and shared curriculum on the topic of sustainable cities [...]
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Aaron Patterson from Enspiria Solutions addressed some of the critical roles that GIS play in supporting smart grid deployments. Patterson suggests that the ultimate goal of a centralized room with a full view of the energy grid is at least 30 years away, but utilities are working now on biting off smaller parts of the [...]
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The U.S. Forest Service is investing $257,000 on an application that uses Google satellite imagery to help homeowners view their land and see the benefits of planting trees on their property. The iTreetools application has tools for users to look up their house, draw their building footprint, and assess the value of each tree on [...]
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Fair Oaks Dairy, an Indiana-based milk producer, has switched their milk hauling fleet of 42 trucks to compressed natural gas and is working on producing their own biomethane form dairy cattle waste. The truck fleet transports 53 loads of milk per day, with the shift in fuel projected to reduce emissions equivalent to 1.5 million [...]
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