Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
China has made substantial progress in boosting its burgeoning offshore wind power by launching its largest intertidal wind farm at the end of 2011. On December 28, Longyuan Power, China’ s largest wind power developer, connected 99.3 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines to the grid in a pilot intertidal wind farm in Rudong county in eastern
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Autodesk, Inc. has named UK-based Green Structures as Autodesk Inventor of the Month for December 2011, citing the company’s use of Autodesk Inventor software and a range of other Autodesk Digital Prototyping technology in transforming the way energy systems are planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated within the built environment.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
EuroGeographics has announced that Julius Ernst from Austria’s Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying is the new Chair of its Cadastre & Land Registry Knowledge Exchange Network (C&LR KEN). Mr Ernst succeeds Professor Bengt Kjelsson who has become Director General of The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registry Authority.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Serving all markets that utilize digital design data, DataWorks MGI focuses specifically on comprehensive solutions to manage information created within an organization’s product development and operational process, leading to more efficient collaboration among all stakeholders, including designers, engineers, manufacturers, marketers, suppliers and customers, throughout every phase of the project.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
-BYD and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) have finished construction on what may be the world’s largest battery energy storage station. This large utility-scale project, located in Zhangbei, Hebei Province, combines 140 Mega-Watts of renewable energy generation (both wind & solar), 36 Mega-Watt-Hours (MWh) of energy storage and a smart power transmission system.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Dr. Khalid A.Rahman Al-Haidan Director of GIS Directorate, Central Informatics Organization said that the GIS Directorate represents the centre of GIS in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Since the establishment of the GIS Directorate in 2002, in the new organisational structure, the Directorate is keen on undertaking and executing projects that reflect positively on the development of
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Citizens of Harrison County, West Virginia, can easily determine their election districts and poll locations through an interactive map developed using free web templates from Esri. The county, which has just under 70,000 residents, also plans to use Esri templates to offer a real-time election results viewer.
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that Municipality of Recanati in Italy selected SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition to integrate and distribute large spatial data to multi client users. SuperGIS Server 3 is designed to create, manage, and share various GIS resources across an enterprise via Web effectively.
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Vestas has received a wind power order for 17 wind turbines V112-3.0 MW turbine for a wind farm in Poland. Vestas has received an order for 17 units of the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine for Poland. The wind power contract comprises supply, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines as well as a 12-year service
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Gecko Systems is a Finnish technology company that has taken an out-of-the box approach to location based services and markets. Instead of thinking of the obvious (which by Nordic standards usually means Western markets, USA, etc.), they have turned east towards Russia and their solutions, namely Glonass, a competitor to the GPS (Global Positioning System).
