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Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience

GreenBiz

As for transportation, our city has bike-share and ride-share programs, one of the largest networks of electric vehicle chargers, real-time bus travel information, a commuter rail (SunRail) and a fare-free bus rapid transit system called the Lymmo to help lessen commuter pollution and congestion within the city.

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Creative Destruction: the COVID-19 Economic Crisis is Accelerating the Demise of the Fossils

Mr. Sustainability

The first was driven by harnessing water power, the second by steam power, the third by coal and electricity, the fourth by oil and gas, and the fifth by digital transformation. We are now at the start of the sixth great wave, driven by renewable energy combined with electromobility and smart-city technology.

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How today’s technology can support the energy system of tomorrow

Smart Energy International

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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Vehicle-to-building demonstrates savings in Boulder

Smart Energy International

The initiative by Fermata Energy in partnership with the City of Boulder, which was launched in December 2020, delivered average savings of $270 per month over 11 months – or about half the monthly payment for many popular electric vehicles (EVs), such as the Nissan LEAF that featured in the demonstration.

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Cities are growing faster and smarter, but can they go greener? We asked Siemens.

EDF + Business

You might not be thinking about smart cities, or how the company is working to accelerate technology innovation, eMobility, resilience, and urban sustainability. What exactly is a “smart city”? For a smart city to succeed, we need good data to understand how to optimize infrastructure performance.

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DISTRIBUTECH International announces Host Utility, partnerships to support navigation of the energy transition

Renewable Energy World

The partnership with CESA will enhance coverage of energy storage, allowing for great penetration into the renewables sector, while the partnerships with Forth, SECC, and VGIC will enhance coverage of smart energy, electric vehicles and other grid-edge technologies.

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Big business must lead the way as part of a post Covid-19 green recovery

Business Green

From there, we have an opportunity to create ambition loops, where businesses provide support for bold government policies and in turn governments adopt policies that drive further actions by businesses - creating jobs and economic growth. million tonnes of carbon.