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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
When planning an infrastructure investment, cities typically concentrate on the people who directly benefit from it. But a new study finds everyone in the city benefits -- even if they never ride the transit system or visit the energy-efficient...
Article - 06/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Transportation
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
Ports are prime economic engines for many cities and -- excluding a relatively brief decline during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 -- the volume of goods moved by ship grew from roughly 3.3 billion metric tons in 1985 to 9.6 billion in 2013....
Article - 06/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Connectivity
There’s no doubt that solar energy production is growing fast. In the U.S., on average, there’s a new panel installation every few minutes.But while utilities, businesses and homeowners have been adopting solar power at faster and faster rates,...
Article - 06/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
From improving healthcare and agricultural yields to meeting energy and water needs as urban populations soar, Intel is on a mission to bring bright minds together to find solutions. The latest examples: a big data analytics lab near Paris and an...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
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
Council Lead Partners S&C Electric Company and Schneider Electric completed one of the most advanced microgrids in the North America for Oncor, an electric transmission and distribution company serving 10 million customers across Texas. The...
Resources - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Streetlights are important civic assets that consume approximately 40% of a municipality's energy budget. Replacing existing streetlights with networked LED luminaires enables tremendous energy savings. Learn more in this video from Council...
Resources - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy
Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Bit Stew Systems how its revolutionary information processing engine, MIx Core™, enables complex event processing, advanced analytics and sophisticated machine intelligence for utilities and the...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
A convergence is happening between smart grid platforms and smart city platforms. Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Silver Spring Networks about the opportunities that provides cities to take advantage of a common infrastructure to...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
While developing the award-winning Tesla Model S electric car, Tesla launched a program to aggressively deploy high-power, fast-charging stations -- “Superchargers” -- along major travel corridors throughout the United States. Council Associate...
Resources - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
When Kansas City Board of Public Utilities installed a water and electric AMI system in 2013, in addition to improving service and reliability, they hoped to empower customers to be wiser energy and water consumers. That goal prompted staff to make...
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The Makkah Clock Tower, located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the world’s largest clock tower and the second tallest building. It has 76 stories and is 577 meters high. It is a vast complex with hotels, shopping outlets, food courts, and luxury...
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
What makes communities smart? This video from Council Associate Partner Elster suggests smart and sustainable communities start with a smart grid, the heartbeat that powers the community's critical infrastructure.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
With a smarter grid and advanced outage management technologies, power interruptions can be avoided or the duration greatly reduced, as this video from Council Associate Partner Elster explains.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Nontechnical loss of energy and water is a problem that utilities around the world face. Watch this video from Council Associate Partner Elster to learn more about the problem and technology that can help solve it.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Learn about smart technologies that help utilities optimize transformer performance in this brief video from Council Associate Partner Elster.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
The West Monroe Partners' 2015 Customer Effort Index in Utilities study found, as this white paper explains, that utilities gain more credibility and support by proactively designing customer interactions as “effortless” as possible across channels...
Resources - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement