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Professor Helps Preserve Crucial Climate Change Data

The Trump administration’s policies raised concerns about the preservation of critical environmental data. Recognizing the risk of losing valuable information, Eric Nost and the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI) took proactive steps to archive datasets at risk of deletion.

The Preservation Effort

Nost and EDGI collaborated to identify and preserve key datasets related to climate change and environmental science, including:

  • Sea Level Rise Estimates: Data on coastal vulnerabilities.
  • Wildfire Risk Predictions: Information for...

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EPA Funding Freeze Disrupts Green Bank Initiatives

A recent decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to freeze access to $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) grants has created a major disruption in the renewable energy sector, particularly for green bank nonprofits tasked with financing sustainable energy projects. The...

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Managing Fleets with GPS Integration

Integrating GPS tracking software to improve business operations

BY JENNY MALCOLM, GPS Insight

Software integration, the process of combining individual computing systems into a unified whole is important to electric and utility companies because it provides the full picture into all fleet activity.

Integrating global positioning system (GPS) fleet tracking software with a geographic information system (GIS), mapping overlays, an outage management system and other software features, can provide the most information for day-to-day operations and improve the overall efficiency of a utility’s fleet.

Information can be accessed from one location—without logging into multiple portals. Utilities with access to all available data from one interface provide the necessary tools to make improved business decisions.

Integration can combine individual computing systems in two different ways—a GPS tracking solution can pull back-end data into the GPS tracking platform, or it can push GPS tracking data to other back-end software. Utilities are advised...

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Facing Wildfire? Choose Toughened Glass Insulators

Insulators under fire, what are we talking about? A line directly in the fire is considered as lost A line near the heat of a fire can be saved What is the condition of insulators on a line nearby a fire? Reliability of insulators during or after a fire is a key consideration for T&D...

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Underground Smart Grid

In recent years, the cost to bury high-voltage power lines has decreased dramatically. The American Transmission Company reports that installation costs for underground transmission lines (over 100 kilovolts) are now only 2.5 to 10 times the cost of an equivalent overhead line. Consequently, the...

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Aging Cable Infrastructure

The 2014 Annual Energy Outlook Report compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that total electricity demand will grow by 29 percent (0.9 percent per year) by 2040. While growth has slowed in every decade since the 1950s, due in part to efficiency gains in appliance...