Smart Communities Summit: Florida
State Legislators
Florida State Senator Jeff Brandes: "We want to gain from Columbus what’s working, what isn’t working, how the partnerships are developing, and what we can take home."
State Legislators' Smart Communities Summit
Unique conversations
Columbus was a timely location for the National Association of State Legislators' Smart Communities Summit. In May, it took place just before the IllumiNation Energy Summit — hosted by AEP, Ohio State University, Battelle and Smart Columbus — and right across the street.
Evolving the Grid Mid-Summer in DC
If you make your way to warm Washington D.C. in the last days of July, you could bump into some of the leading thinkers on the electric industry’s future.
Your Utility was in Insull Group
The Insull Group owned a large proportion of the U.S. electric utility industry in 1932.
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Joe Gammie
Suburban Birmingham
"What you’re seeing is that localized distributed energy and microgrid type approaches are starting to make the grid more interactive than it has even been before."
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Shon Richey
Suburban Birmingham
"You’ve got a little bit more upfront costs for some of these technologies because they’re higher end, but twenty years down the road, we see this being standard in most homes."
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Todd Rath
Suburban Birmingham
"Homeowners agreed to allow their data to be collected and they participate in various experiments, programs, and processes."
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Jim Leverette
Suburban Birmingham
"This is, at heart, a research project trying to picture one possible future of what the grid might look like."
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Sharelynn Moore
Spokane
"Urbanova’s mission is to create a vibrant, collaborative environment and living laboratory or scalable, replicable smart city projects deployed in the University District."
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Heather Rosentrater
Spokane
With the support of the Dentons Smart Cities & Communities Think Tank, PUF chose to honor Austin, Columbus, San Antonio, Spokane and suburban Birmingham as the Fortnightly Smartest Communities 2019.
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