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During a game, a ballpark basically becomes a small city. But a few hours before or after it can practically be a ghost town. Those dramatic usage swings set up a tremendous opportunity for waste.In San Diego, however, the cost of running Petco Park...
Article - 08/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Cities have many reasons to get smart. Climate mandates. Economic development. Operational efficiency. New research suggests that you can make gains on these and other goals by working towards smart buildings. First, by updating the city’s own...
Article - 06/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Cities have found intelligent street lights useful for everything from energy conservation to traffic management, but a new partnership involving Council Lead Partner GE will help them fight crime too. In fact, the lights will be able to alert...
Article - 10/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
When a comprehensive energy efficiency upgrade is completed for the 82 buildings on three community college campuses in the San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), the district will be the first in California to integrate building...
Article - 07/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Energy storage for the microgrid at Black & Veatch headquarters.There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, when solar and wind energy were greeted with skepticism and outright resistance from most traditional electric utilities. But look...
Article - 07/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
New York City's Grand Central Station is one of the busiest train terminals in the U.S. -– and sure to be even busier with the approaching July 4 holiday.When Grand Central was built in 1913, the massive 49-acre facility designed in a neoclassical...
Article - 06/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Instrumentation and control
Forecasts of 10 million homes with solar panels by 2020, electric vehicle sales increasing to 6.4 million by 2023 and increasing use of distributed generation is creating unprecedented challenges in managing energy consumption and generation across...
Article - 06/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Adapting EV battery technology for home and industrial energy storage plants isn’t a new concept. Several car makers have worked to develop the technology. But it took automotive upstart Tesla to successfully take EV battery-based energy storage to...
Article - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Michael Edmonds, president of U.S. business for S&C, is at the podium during a plant opening event that included remarks by Florida Gov. Rick Scott (at left).The timing couldn’t have been better. Council Lead Partner S&C Electric opened its...
Article - 06/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Siemens and partners will assess the feasibility of a community microgrid for Sherburne, New York. It was one of communities to win $100,000 in microgrid development money in the state's NY Prize competition to protect critical infrastructure.The...
Article - 05/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…GE launching waste-to-energy plant in the PhilippinesGE is supplying Aseagas Corp. with gas engines for the company’s first waste-to-electricity project in Lian in the Province of Batangas,...
Article - 05/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
By Jenny Roehm Schneider ElectricIn a digital world, where more devices than ever are connected and consumers want information right at their fingertips, home energy management solutions are a way to take control of their home energy use with...
Article - 05/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control
The future of self-driving commercial vehicles is unclear, but the lure of fewer accidents, reduced fuel costs – not to mention less human error – have generated excitement in the trucking industry as well as the transportation safety sector.The...
Article - 05/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Knowing where today's markets are heading – and when – can help cities chart their smart city roadmaps. Scroll down for new reports on smart street lighting, Internet of Things security and stop-start vehicles.84% of world's streetlights will be...
Article - 05/08/2015
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
As Expo Milano 2015 gets under way in Milan, Italy, Council Lead Partner Enel is finishing up the installation of technologies that will provide power for the cities of the future – and it couldn’t be more appropriate. The Expo’s theme focuses on...
Article - 05/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The piece below is excerpted from the ABB Review article "Building better" by Thomas Rodenbusch-Mohr and Anthony Byatt. You can read the full article here.Constant IT advances, rapid urbanization, climate changes and the rise of alternative energy...
Article - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control
By Alan Snook, GRID20/20The global evolution of smart cities is gaining tremendous momentum. Leaders are actively embracing the concept of revitalizing cities from a perspective of sustainability. Times are changing and metro-dwellers are...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Panama City intends to get smart with help from Cisco Cisco and Panama City announce plan to work together to turn Panama City into a smart city using Council Lead Partner Cisco’s Smart+Connected...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
When you think of greenhouse gases, you tend to think of the stuff that comes out of a vehicle’s tailpipe. At power plants, you may think only of emissions at facilities that burn fuel. But all electrical facilities use them. They’re used as...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Two recent announcements give us important hints about the future of microgrids. A microgrid encompasses a proscribed area such as a campus, district or military base. It includes some generation on-site or nearby and typically some energy storage...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control