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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Fortnightly Smartest Communities: David Condon
Spokane
"We need to provide real-time data to folks, so they can conserve and use the energy sources and water to the best of their abilities."
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Kimberly Britton
San Antonio
"You’ve got to decide what are the priorities, and how do we implement it in a way that’s affordable and helpful to the neighborhood."