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By Alan Snook, GRID20/20In the early 1990s the term “information superhighway” began to take root. It was touted as a revolutionary way for people to communicate, access information and easily engage in commerce globally. Yes this thing called the...
Article - 11/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
A new report, Infrastructure Crisis, Sustainable Solutions: Rethinking Our Infrastructure Investment Strategies, says it’s not just our infrastructure that’s getting old. A significant number of the people who know how to fix our roads, electric...
Article - 11/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater
A new bicycle path opened this month in Holland that not only gives bicyclists a safe place to ride, it also generates power for neighboring homes.It’s one of the most serious experiments yet to see if roads can be a source of energy, something that...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
Power generation and transmission should rank among the biggest growth areas over the next decade, and three new power plants are showing that those investments also lead to big innovations. From reclaimed wastewater to batteries to biomass, these...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater
As city leaders, academics and leading smart cities practitioners from around the world gather for the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week, Smart Cities Council members are sharing their expertise and thought leadership on a host...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Stroll through Caishikou in downtown Beijing and you’ll see a thriving commercial district with busy streets and a museum. But you won’t see the substation that powers it all.Smart cities attract businesses and residents, but large power substations...
Article - 11/14/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Efforts to stretch New York City’s power supply will get a boost from a new platform that features technology from Council Lead Partner Alstom Grid.Con Edison, which serves 3.3 million electricity customers, is using Alstom’s Demand Response...
Article - 11/14/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
In many parts of the world, customers can prepay their electricity bills just as they can prepay cell phone minutes. In North America, however, prepay is relatively rare. Many regulators and consumer advocates have always feared that utilities would...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council members…S&C Electric and Space-Time Insight win innovation awards: Council Lead Partner S&C Electric Co. won the Energy Storage category in the 2014 Fierce Innovation Awards competition. Winners were...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
Scott Jenkins of the Seattle Mariners discusses how his organization is using the power of data to achieve sustainability goals in this video from Council Associate Partner OSIsoft.
Resources - 11/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics, Computing resources
The PI System from Council Associate Partner OSIsoft shares and combines building and utility data through the cloud. Watch this video to learn more about what that can mean for building managers, airports, stadiums and others.
Resources - 11/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources, Data management
Steve Ehrlich, SVP of Marketing and Product Management at Space-Time Insight, answers questions on utilities adoption of visual analytics and the benefits of using situational intelligence in this video from GreenTech Media.
Resources - 11/11/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics
Électricité de France, a Council Lead Partner and one of the world's largest utilities, introduces super efficient combined-cycle gas turbine technology at its new plant in Bouchain, France designed to conserve natural gas and reduce greenhouse...
Resources - 11/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy
Take a tour and learn about the functions of the grid control room -- the brain of the smart grid -- in this video from Council Lead Partner Alstom Grid that showcases its Energy Management System (EMS).
Resources - 11/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control