“The Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability at Sandy Ground, also known as P.S. 62, is the first net-zero-energy school in New York City and one of the first of its kind worldwide. The 68,000-square-foot, two-story school serves 444 pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students. The cutting-edge building harvests as much energy from renewable on-site […]
“The University of Phayao in Thailand is offering the ASEAN’s first smart grid degree. The university has adopted an intelligent grid in its actual power generation and use on campus and is now the first to offer its study as a degree programme, reports the local media. Associate professor Dr. Wattanapong Rakwichian, dean of the […]
“Namyangju city has a population of 650,000 and is located 25km northeast of Seoul in the Republic of Korea. Namyangju has been continuously promoting smart city project since 2008 with a target of becoming a low-carbon green transport city by 2020. This city has recently experienced rapid growth of population followed by large scale housing […]
Introduction video of the Smart City Shioashiya “Solar-Shima” Tucked away in a corner of Ashiya city in Japan’s Hyogo prefecture, Shioashiya is a town designed and developed by PanaHome, a subsidiary housing company of Japanese electronics giant Panasonic. Shioashiya, which houses 400 detached houses as well as an 83-unit condominium complex, is PanaHome’s first attempt […]
During Climate Week NYC in September 2016, the World Bank, together with C40 Cities, the Compact of Mayors, and other partners, launched a new planning tool called “CURB: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability,” which can help address some of these issues. CURB provides tailored analyses that can help city officials more easily identify, prioritize, and […]
EMA is piloting a micro-grid test-bed at the jetty area of Pulau Ubin, an island north-east of Singapore. This test-bed aims to assess the reliability of electricity supply within a micro-grid infrastructure using intermittent renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. Unlike conventional power generators, solar power is intermittent in nature as the […]
Singapore is aiming to become a Smart Nation (indeed a smart city nation state) by integrating many of its governmental and social functions into the internet of things. This ambition builds on Singapore's investment in both communication infrastructure and smart grid technology which dates back decades. Background Arun Mahizhnan provides an excellent background about how […]
The World Bank has closely engaged with National Power Transmission Corporation (NPT), the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV) and the National Load Dispatch Center (NLDC) to refine the existing Smart Grid roadmap on the basis of the lessons learned from the international experience with Smart Grid development. This report presents the results of this […]
The vision of the BEE Hub cluster is to establish a Building Energy Efficiency Hub@NUS leveraging the campus as a “living lab” / showcase. An initial phase involves 10 buildings on campus with the following objectives: Develop an Energy Information Network (EIN) Infrastructure. The EIN will improve current energy efficiency efforts on campus through an […]
The Mexican government is rolling out smart meters throughout the nation. The Advanced Metering Infrastructure is being funded through Mexico's PEDIGRAS program, which uses private companies and financing to carry out public works projects. This smart metering project is beyond deployed in phases by the Comisión Federal de Electricidad’s (CFE), a company created and owned […]
