By Michael Tschirret, Marketing Communications Manager at Sensus At Sensus, we often get asked the question “What makes a city smart?” It’s a broad one to be sure, but the answer usually starts with infrastructure. Read More
The Urban Future Lab has announced the launch of its 2018 Urban Future Prize Competition – which seeks revolutionary smart city and smart grid technologies to participate in a pitch competition in New York City. Read More
SP Group – an energy utilities group in the Asia Pacific – launched the world’s first smart grid index to help utilities measure and advance in key dimensions of grid development. Currently, utilities worldwide apply Read More
The state of Victoria in south-eastern Australia recently launched a $3 million AU grant program to support the development of a renewables-based microgrid project and help grow the new energy technology sector in the Latrobe Read More
Smart Columbus – the smart city initiative of the City of Columbus, OH – recently released its Concept of Operations (ConOps) for its Connected Vehicle Environment (CVE) pilot. The purpose of this ConOps is to Read More
Sprint has partnered with Adaptive Motion Group (AMG) to introduce the “Mobi” self-driving robot – designed to charge electric buses, cars and industrial vehicles — to New York City beginning in the first half of Read More
Utility companies around the globe are installing smart meters that will allow the companies to automatically measure how much electricity people consume, thus eliminating the need for meter readers to manually take the measurements. The Read More
Working in partnership, Hitachi Europe Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are exploring the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. For the experiment, Hitachi’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) Read More
The Austin SHINES Project (Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and solar PV) is laying the ground work for modernizing the electric grid. Through this project, Austin Energy along with many other partners are Read More
The city of Chattanooga, Tennessee’s Electric Power Board is partnering with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville to build a solar-battery microgrid at its municipal airport. The airport already has a Read More
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