Jackson, Michigan Mayor Derek Dobies unveiled the city’s vision for a “Smart Energy District” in downtown Jackson to promote sustainable and low-carbon city solutions. The city … Continue reading Jackson Michigan announces ‘Smart Energy District’
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in Spain have developed software to help make airborne wind energy (AWE) systems more efficient and effective at … Continue reading New software may make energy-generating kites more effective
A team of researchers in Japan and China have created a new technology that could be used to capture and store atmospheric carbon in a solid … Continue reading Battery technology inspires a new approach to carbon removal
Local governments across China are pushing to adopt more smart infrastructure to leverage big data and improve efficiencies. Online retail giant Alibaba has established a reputation … Continue reading Alibaba marries carbon reduction with China’s ‘cashless’ trends
Panasonic is building a low carbon smart city just outside of Denver, Colorado. The community is being built on a 400-acre plot not far from Denver’s … Continue reading Panasonic builds a low-carbon community from the ground up
Last year, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman officially unveiled the Innovation District, a segment of the city that Goodman hoped would become a “digital playground” … Continue reading Las Vegas ‘Innovation District’ is a testbed for smart city tech
Siemens and AES are coming together to create one of the world’s largest energy storage solutions companies. The two giants in the space have created a … Continue reading AES & Siemens seek to dominate ‘energy network of tomorrow’ with Fluence
Netherlands-based Ampyx Power has developed a novel approach to generating wind energy, and thanks to a new partnership with Germany’s EON utility company, Ampyx will get … Continue reading Ampyx will demo its energy-generating drones in Ireland
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR) has amassed nearly 150 large, intensely bright film projector spotlights, arranged in what DLR … Continue reading World’s Largest Artificial Sun Could Help Improve Hydrogen Fuel Production
Recent breakthroughs in redox flow battery technology could see battery storage systems gaining traction in grid-scale deployments. Researchers at Harvard recently discovered a new class of … Continue reading Redox Batteries Will Be a Boon for Grid-Scale Electricity Storage
Carbon capture systems used to reduce the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere are much worse for the environment than renewable sources of energy generation, … Continue reading Renewables Are Clean but Carbon-Capture Systems Aren’t
Commuters in 20 cities across the US are now able to make more informed and sustainable decisions about getting from one place to the next, thanks … Continue reading TransitScreen Helps Commuters Make Smart Transport Decisions
City and local governments can serve as leaders in key sectors that’ll impact the global transition to a low carbon society. That’s according to a large … Continue reading Cities Can Be ‘Lighthouses’ for Curbing Emissions
In 2015, UPS became the largest user of renewable energy in the shipping industry, when it began using a source of natural gas that is derived … Continue reading UPS Drives Market for Drop-In Renewable Fuels
Despite Historic Paris Agreement, Money Is Still a Looming Uncertainty in Our Clean Energy Future Africa’s leaders attending the COP21 conference have called for the commitment … Continue reading Financing the Climate Paradigm Shift
One Firm Creates a City OS to Tackle Data Silos and Smart Development Cities will become top benefactors of the so-called Big Data era, if they … Continue reading How to Build a City for the Future
US Lags Behind in Broadband Connection Speeds Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker each took turns urging the United States’ cableco industry to continue investments in their broadband infrastructures. The two government representatives … Continue reading US Gov’t to Cablecos: Keep Investing in Broadband Networks
