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September 28, 2017

How Urban Resiliency Can Make Cites

“While catastrophe is not always preventable, the degree of destruction and devastation can be reduced.”   Urban Risks are Different and Require a Unique Approach Urban areas are complex with highly interdependent systems. With these interdependencies, failing systems can result in cascading impacts that can disrupt the availability of clean water, electricity, and communications. Furthermore, […]

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September 28, 2017

LED Lighting Revolution

Perhaps the most striking thing about the LED revolution is the speed with which it has transformed our industry. A solid majority of our company’s business is LED-related now, and it happened in a span of less than four years. This was a watershed moment because the lighting industry has traditionally been slow to change.  […]

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August 24, 2017

IoT Powered Transportation Systems

Some cities are now using interoperable wireless communications networks that link up cars, buses, trucks, trains, emergency vehicles, personal mobile devices — molding them into a unified transportation infrastructure. Once in place, such a system does fundamentally change the transportation system paradigm because it provides ordinary people with a broad range of new tools (including […]

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June 23, 2017

Budget Cuts Affecting America’s Future

Budget Cuts Affecting America’s This month seven former heads of the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (from both Republican and Democratic Administrations) got together to warn Congress that Trump’s budget was going to seriously hurt America’s energy future. Trump’s budget cut calls for a 5.6 percent cut to […]

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June 23, 2017

Ramping Up Renewables: The Current Situation Across the United States for Utilities and Co-ops

Currently, utilities and co-ops are ramping up renewables. America now generates more kilowatt-hours of renewable energy than any other country in the world. Creating jobs and bettering the environment, zero-fuel cost renewable generation provides a critical hedge against future increases in fossil-fuel prices. While federal incentives have bolstered supply of renewable energy, support for renewable […]

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May 25, 2017

Neighbors Changing the Way We Buy Power

Now customers can purchase Solar Power from their neighbor’s roof thanks to a startup company in Brooklyn, L03 Energy. They are completely changing how homeowners can buy and sell their electricity. They have created a market for clean energy. This is changing how power utility companies have been traditionally running things for a long time. […]

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May 25, 2017

The New Normal: Clean Energy

US Cities now have begun to offer large scale renewable energy to their customers. There are now programs that allow customers to purchase off the grid large scale renewable energy. There is now a bigger than ever demand clean energy and greenhouse gas reductions. Many Fortune 500 companies are seeking to go clean and because […]

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