by Bill Meehan Back when I was interning at a power company, the utility industry had recently adopted a revolutionary new technology called supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA. ...
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Measuring Landscape Disturbance of Gas Exploration in Somerset and Westmoreland Counties
Landscape change in Pennsylvania’s Somerset and Westmoreland counties resulting from construction of ...
Mapping the Renewable Energy Revolution
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RasGas issues sustainability report
Doha: RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) has issued its Sustainability Report 2012, the ...
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Dispatch: Students from 64 countries talk sustainable energy in Norway
This week in Trondheim, the technology and engineering capital of Norway, a one-of-a-kind event about the future energy outlook on Earth is taking place. This third iteration of the biennial International Student Energy Summit will host the assembly of more than 400 students from 64 countries, the largest and most diverse yet. Through the summit, [...]
Constitution Pipeline Company Seeks FERC Approval to Connect Pennsylvania Marcellus Natural Gas Supply with Northeastern Markets by 2015
Constitution Pipeline Company Seeks FERC Approval to Connect Pennsylvania Marcellus Natural Gas Supply with Northeastern Markets by 2015 Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC, a limited liability company owned by subsidiaries of Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE:WPZ), Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG), Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. (NYSE:PNY), and WGP Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:WGL), today announced it has [...]
Transco unveils route for proposed Mountain Top pipeline expansion
PLAINS TWP. – The company planning a new pipeline expansion project to run through the Mountain Top area unveiled its route at a public hearing Wednesday night. Transco, a division of the Williams companies, is expanding the section of interstate natural gas transmission pipeline called the Leidy line, which runs through the Mountain Top area. [...]
A roadmap for algal energy
A new report published today sets out the potential for the UK’s nascent algal bioenergy industry. This could become one of the fastest-growing parts of the economy over the next few years as governments struggle to cut CO2 emissions and move towards more sustainable energy generation, and the UK is well-placed to compete. Our scientists [...]
Pacific Connector files application with FERC to build $1.7bn gas pipeline
US-based Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), seeking permission to build, own and operate a natural gas transmission pipeline at an estimated cost of about $1.7bn in southern Oregon. The Pacific Connector pipeline is co-owned by Veresen and Williams. The proposed pipeline will cover 232 miles [...]
Mapping for renewable energy
As the whole subject of planning applications for and the siting of large renewable energy project becomes increasingly the focus of widespread public attention and, to a certain extent, controversy, so project developers need to become ever more careful about the decisions they take regarding the siting of potential projects with regard to visual and [...]
Smart Grid Above the Fold: 6/7/13
Each Friday, SGCC hand-selects top consumer, smart grid news from around the web in our weekly e-news, Smart Grid: Above the Fold. Smart Grid News Wired: Welcome to the Programmable World In our houses, cars, and factories, we’re surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Now [...]
DONG Energy and FLIDAR Start Offshore Wind Measurement Campaign
The first commercial offshore wind measurement campaign using floating LiDAR in European waters has kicked off in the Irish Sea. FLiDAR NV has deployed one of its LiDAR buoys for DONG Energy in the southern East Irish Sea. The partnership initially involves a one year measurement campaign in the Irish Sea. The technology has been [...]
U.S. Energy Department releases geothermal energy regulatory road map
The U.S. Department of Energy issued a regulatory road map today that covers eight western states and is aimed at reducing the cost of geothermal energy, the energy created from heat underneath the earth’s surface. Using flowcharts and narrative descriptions, the road map details federal, state and local permitting requirements needed to harness geothermal energy. [...]
The science of flooding
The extreme flooding that central Europeans are enduring is a reminder of just how destructive this kind of natural disaster can be, as well as of how quickly it can arise after just a few days of heavy rainfall. So far at least nine people have died in Austria and the Czech Republic, with further [...]
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