At the end of July, the seventh annual Science of Smart Cities (SoSC) program wrapped up at New York University's (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering. This year's four-week program focused on four broad areas—energy, wireless...
Each year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promotes a "Safe + Sound Week" to encourage businesses, employees and organizations to increase their awareness of workplace safety and health. This year's "...
Last Thursday, Aug. 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a freeze on auto emission standards at 2020 levels and proposed to revoke Californi...
Last week, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will move to rescind California's authority to set its own emission standards fo...
With the increase in customer generation, such as solar power and microgrids, as well as the continued focus on energy efficiency, electric utilities' profits have sagged. That is, not only are utilities losing revenue as a r...
As part of its journey to toward total carbon neutrality, the City of St. Paul, Minn., has set a goal to make all public buildings carbon-neutral by 2030 and all private buildings carbon-neutral by 2050. Other efforts on its...
In the past few years, there has been an explosion of customer-owned and -sited renewable energy generation (called distributed energy resources, or DER), such as residential rooftop solar, larger solar installations (on comm...
For electrical contractors, especially those involved in utility work, drones are becoming increasingly popular. Their uses include surveying, monitoring and providing feedback at new project and construction sites; conductin...
Switched on in December 2017, a 100-megawatt (MW) Tesla battery in Australia is the world's largest utility-scale battery installation. But maybe not for long. Last week, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) requested approval from...
As technology continues to advance, more companies are realizing the future is all about comprehensive and complete integration. Rather than operating a number of technology systems in parallel, the way to get the most from e...
According to the recently released " 2018 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard ," a report released every two years by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), which ranks 25 nations (representing 78...
The shift toward electric vehicles (EVs) is gaining traction, meaning the growth of EV charging station infrastructures is also taking off. One state with a strong commitment to this infrastructure is Nevada. Last week, the N...
