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The State Of Greenfield Smart Cities In Africa

Forbes Green Tech

Grand projects like these certainly exist in developed nations, but the developing world hosts its own share of greenfield smart city aspirations.

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Ed’s note: Innovation for utility challenges in a volatile world

Smart Energy International

EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) is a highly diverse area, both between the individual regions and across them. Pointing to infrastructure as a top challenge along with the environment and social imbalances, he continued that it is our obligation to do more, using new technology to innovate and drive sustainability.

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Itron Inspire EMEA 2022: Utility best practices and innovation

Smart Energy International

The Itron Inspire EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) 2022 virtual event highlighted the important work being done within the water and energy sectors in the face of pressing challenges. As new innovations and projects come to be on the road to carbon neutrality, new problems will start surfacing requiring innovative solutions.

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Itron’s flagship EMEA event gathers industry visionaries

Smart Energy International

The event aims to gather industry experts, colleagues and thought leaders from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Itron Inspire EMEA 2022 , previously called Itron Utility Week, hopes to bring industry leaders together to drive business transformation, reimagine customer engagement and ignite innovation.

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Technology Trending: battolyser hydrogen tech, gyrotrons for geothermal, quantum encryption, Dubai urban tech

Smart Energy International

The LoCEL-H2 (Low-cost, Circular, plug & play, off-grid Energy for remote Locations including Hydrogen) project led by the Consortium for Battery Innovation with support from the Horizon Europe programme is developing the battolyser, a lead battery electrolyser, as a solution for hydrogen powered cooking as a replacement for firewood stoves.

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NEOM launches utility infrastructure development subsidiary

Smart Energy International

These are THE LINE, which is envisaged as a 1 million inhabitant zero carbon city, OXAGON, an industrial innovation city for which tenants are already being sought, and TROJENA, a sustainable mountain tourism destination. Have you read? We cannot and will not be able to do it alone.

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Itron Chief calls on industry to accept ‘sacred obligation’ to society

Smart Energy International

He emphasised the importance of innovation and collaboration to ensure the work the energy sector does truly addresses the need for resilience, reliability and continuity within grids and supply chains, making an impact now and enduring for generations to come.