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Smart grids to dominate smart city spending through 2026

Smart Energy International

A new report released by Juniper Research states that investments in smart grids across the globe will dominate smart city developments made between 2020 and 2026. Shanghai, owing to its Citizen Cloud, has managed to centralise consumer shopping, ensuring access to over 1,000 smart city services and products.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. In the wake of COVID-19, when governments will provide massive stimulus funding to restart economies, it’s more important than ever to consider the long-term value creation of urban infrastructure investments. Roland Hunziker. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 01:00.

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Infrastructure and resiliency set to accelerate smart water systems uptake – study

Smart Energy International

The result of this, however, is a rising demand for smart water systems to integrate into smart city-esque infrastructure to bolster resilience against such events; so states a new research report. The report comes in from Guidehouse Insights.

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The road to a sustainable economy

The Environmental Blog

This makes it difficult to invest in green practices that may have upfront costs but long-term benefits. Through investment, countries can help support renewable energy, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Through reform, we can create a more resilient and environmentally friendly food system.

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Rebooting Britain: Creating a sustainable, resilient, low carbon economy

Business Green

As the world rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic, we have a unique opportunity to create a fairer, more resilient, low carbon society, writes BT's chief digital impact & sustainability officer, Andy Wales. The Green Tech Innovation Platform. Full fibre and 5G mobile will underpin permanent changes to the way people live and work.

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Mississippi utility co-op deploys fiber network for broadband and smart grid connectivity

Smart Energy International

4-County is using over $35 million in funding secured from the Rural Digital Opportunity Funds (RDOF), its own investments and millions in funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Funding to expand the Fastnet Fiber programme. The fiber network is a foundation by the co-op to offer other smart city services as well.

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What we’re looking to fund for Cohort 11

Elemental Excelerator

Think of us as a nonprofit VC: First the investor part: We invest $300,000 (for growth strategy development) or $600,000 (for project deployment) to companies across six systems – water, food and agriculture, nature-based solutions, energy, mobility, and the circular economy. Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment.