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Scroll down for quick news takes and developments involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Enel to co-develop South Australia solar farm Council Global Lead Partner subsidiary Enel Green Power Australia has been awarded a 15-year support agreement to...
Article - 09/13/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Transportation
Scroll down for quick news takes and developments involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Itron recognized for smart street lighting solutions Council Global Lead Partner Itron, generally considered an innovator in the way utilities and cities...
Article - 08/16/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick news takes and events involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Smarter water resources management for a quickly growing countyVirginia's Loudoun County is among the fastest growing counties in the U.S. — and industrial and...
Article - 06/14/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Long stretches of hot summer days or extremely cold winter weather sometimes force electric utilities to buy additional power when it costs the most or bring older, less efficient power plants online to meet demand they couldn't otherwise fulfill....
Article - 05/24/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Scroll down for quick news takes and events involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Cisco, Intel contribute to 2018 Olympic Winter GamesNBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, chose Council Global Lead Partner Cisco to provide IP video...
Article - 03/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Wellness, Energy, Water and wastewater
Scroll down for quick news takes on Smart Cities Council partners.Sensus recognized by rural electric cooperativesFor the second consecutive year, rural cooperative utility leaders recognized Council Global Lead Partner Sensus, a Xylem brand, and...
Article - 12/07/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Transportation, Water and wastewater
"Poor housing linked to rising asthma cases in Europe," reads a recent EURACTIV headline. Damp and moldy buildings, bad heating, poor insulation are all suspect. In fact in Bulgaria, the article suggests 46.5% of the population is unable to keep...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Scroll down for quick news takes from Smart Cities Council partners.Daimler and Bosch partner on autonomous taxisCouncil Lead Partner Daimler and automotive components company Bosch are working together to bring autonomous taxis to city streets....
Article - 04/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Water and wastewater
We continue our Quick Takes series with a look at some intriguing initiatives communities are undertaking to bolster their affordable housing stock and/or make existing housing more affordable. What’s notable in some of these examples is that they...
Article - 04/12/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Visionaries from the ranks of social entrepreneurship to K-12 STEM education are gathering this week at Microsoft's New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, MA for DigiFabCon. The event is billed as an exploration of how the...
Article - 03/29/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Wellness
Enel photoGoing green is a practical way for companies to grow their reputation for sustainability and innovation. And hooking up with the increasingly popular FIA Formula E open wheel electric car racing circuit is one way to do it. But Council...
Article - 02/16/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation
Scroll down for quick news summaries from Council partners.CH2M and partner win innovation awardSalesforce recently selected East Sussex Highways, a joint venture of Council Lead Partner CH2M, Costain and East Sussex County Council, as a recipient...
Article - 01/26/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.Oracle to invest in computer science education in EuropeCouncil Lead Partner Oracle will invest $1.4 billion in computer science and coding education throughout Europe. The investment will be in the...
Article - 12/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity
It may seem strange to suggest that cash-strapped cities consider undertaking two concurrent projects as a way to save money. But Italy-based Council Associate Partner Enel, rightly considered a smart meter and smart grid pioneer, will do just that...
Article - 09/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Connectivity
When the concept of vehicle-to-grid technology was first proposed in 1997, and for years afterward, the idea of using electric vehicles as storage batteries to help balance electric grids was seen by at least some as unrealistic, far-fetched. And an...
Article - 09/02/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Transportation
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.Black & Veatch wins major natural gas contractAssociate Partner Black & Veatch has won engineering, procurement and construction services contract for a proposed 925 MW natural gas combined...
Article - 08/23/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Finance and procurement
It's always interesting to check in on Enel, the Italy-based global energy leader and Council Associate Partner. Enel's view of the work they do and sense of responsibility to the communities they work in is refreshing, as the story below...
Article - 08/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners...Schneider Electric, Black & Veatch chosen for military advanced microgrid projectCouncil Lead Partner Schneider Electric and Associate Partner Black & Veatch have been chosen to develop one...
Article - 07/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Waste management, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners...Electronic components maker selects Allied Telesis video surveillance systemTDK Thailand Company, a major electronic components manufacturer, has chosen a video surveillance solution from Council...
Article - 06/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity
Council Associate Partner Enel and car maker Nissan have been working on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology for some time and are now ready to put it through a trial in the UK. The two companies have conducted successful trial projects before in other...
Article - 05/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation
Many cities have energy efficiency at the top of their smart city project list. And no wonder — it improves the environment while saving money while setting an example for the private sector. But setting energy efficiency goals is the easy part. How...
Article - 05/18/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Citizen engagement
If you’ve been holding off on renewable energy because it’s too expensive, you are running out of excuses. Last year, for the first time ever, renewable energy accounted for a majority of the new production that came online.And rapidly developing...
Article - 04/06/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Energy
Enel Green Power (EGP), the renewable energy subsidiary of Council Lead Partner Enel, is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in new solar arrays to meet increasing demand for clean power in Chile and Brazil (as well as other countries in...
Article - 01/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy
Want to know the number one cause of utility outages? No, it's not cyber-attacks or terrorist incursions or solar flares or any of the things that get the headlines. It's simple, old-fashioned maintenance. Or I should say, the lack thereof. Things...
Article - 12/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners …MasterCard identifies African cities with strongest potentialThe latest annual ranking from Council Lead Partner MasterCard finds the Mozambique capital of Maputo has the strongest potential of...
Article - 12/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
For more than a hundred years, the electric power industry worked exclusively on the supply side. When demand grew, they simply built more power plants. But electricity demand is subject to severe peaks (think of a hot summer day where everybody's...
Article - 11/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners… 50 companies changing our world: Enel, Cisco, MasterCard, IBM, Intel on Fortune's listIn its 2015 list of 50 companies "that are doing well by doing good," Fortune named Council Lead Partner Enel at...
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Policy and leadership
In many parts of the world, it doesn't take more than a quick glance at people on a subway or even walking down city streets to see how dependent we have become on our smartphones. And while public phone charging stations – from solar-powered...
Article - 10/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity
Enel Green Power has launched an innovation competition, a public prize challenge, organized to solve five technical issues, with new and innovative ideas.The company is looking for early-stage innovative technological solutions and proposals for...
Article - 10/01/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy
The growth of renewable energy and distributed generation, the drop in demand for electricity in Europe, enhanced energy efficiency and other factors have left Italian utility Enel, a Council Lead Partner, with a large number of power plants that...
Article - 09/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Citizen engagement
The latest generation of American commuters spends twice as much time sitting in traffic as their parents did when they entered the workforce. Traffic is as bad as it’s ever been and getting worse. But a study finds the road to easier commutes may...
Article - 09/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation
At first glance, it certainly looks like an unusual approach to solving the problem of providing electricity to the remote, isolated villages and communities of the world: bringing young grandmothers who live in those areas to a training college in...
Article - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Upward Mobility, Economic development, Energy, Citizen engagement
Endesa, a Spanish subsidiary of Council Lead Partner Enel and car maker Nissan, which manufactures the popular Leaf EV, are working together to bring vehicle-to-grid (V2G) to Europe in a big way. The two companies hope to be the first to introduce...
Article - 08/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation
There’s no doubt that the energy world is changing fast. It wasn’t long ago that the electrical grid was one-way — delivering power to homes and businesses, not receiving power from them. Today, the electrical grid is two-way. And renewable energy,...
Article - 05/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Computing resources, Data management, Interoperability
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
With numerous wind, geothermal, solar, biomass and hydropower plants operating throughout North America and elsewhere in the world, Council Lead Partner Enel plans to double its total installed capacity of renewable power generation over the next...
Article - 04/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Schneider Electric partners on Canada’s first university-based smart grid labCouncil Lead Partner Schneider Electric, the Ontario Ministry of Energy and Ryerson University announced the opening of...
Article - 03/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
A new effort named Espresso is designed to perk up the business of transmitting data over power lines. Council Lead Partner Enel is leading the effort, which enlists researchers, government agencies and other companies to find ways to turn...
Article - 03/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
It's a truism that Big Data creates big results, especially if that data is delivered in real time. Look no further than the maps on your smart phone to understand the value created by mashing up real-time data from many different sources. (Take a ...
Article - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Eight Spanish cities reduced their electricity consumption by 64% and saved over 4,300 tonnes of C02 in 2014, thanks to efficient street lighting systems and technologies that both cut costs and benefit the environment.According to Council Lead...
Article - 02/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control