Author: Panorama Environmental

Measuring CEQA Transportation Impacts: Replacing LOS with VMT?

California’s planning policymakers are deep in debate regarding the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research’s (OPR) proposal to replace Level of Service (LOS) with a new metric, Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). OPR proposes to replace LOS, which focuses only on delays to the movement of cars, with VMT, which analyzes the entire lengths of car trips from […]

Geothermal Energy to Lower Electricity Cost in Kenya by 30 Percent

Adding Geothermal Energy to the National Grid in Kenya The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) will reduce the costs of electricity by 30 percent with the recent addition of 140 megawatts of geothermal power to the national grid from 14 mobile geothermal generating wells at the Olkaria site in Naivasha. Panorama has been working closely with KenGen […]

Water Issues on the California Ballot

California is in a water crisis. Proposition 1, on the California ballot for the coming November 4th Election Day proposes to improve water quality, supply, and infrastructure with a $7.5 billion general obligation bond. Proposition 1 would support improvements to the following: