Indiana URC: Consumer Affairs
A Day at the Indiana URC
"We look for opportunities to help the customers, and also educate them about the rules and regulations."
Law & Lawyers
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."
Jeremy's Take on the PwC Quarterly Power and Utilities Deals Report
Mergers and Acquisitions
Total Q1 deal value lowest since Q2 2017, lowest Q1 since 2015.
Fortnightly Smartest Communities 2019
Award Winners
We at Dentons wish to congratulate the very deserving award winners of Fortnightly Smartest Communities 2019: Austin, Columbus, San Antonio, Spokane, and suburban Birmingham.
Our firm has been increasingly interested in this subject and created a global Smart Cities & Communities Think Tank with more than two hundred and fifty thought leaders from around the world. The more we have learned about smart cities through the Think Tank and through our work with clients, the more we realize just what a fast-breaking field this is, with developments occurring on a daily basis.
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."
Run-Up to Fortnightly Top Innovators 2019, Part 1
Wastewater Encapsulation
Investigating a novel wastewater approach: an integrated solid and liquid waste disposal technology.
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Jackie Sargent
Austin
"We have an EV360 program, where for a nominal monthly charge people receive a card that lets them charge at any in-network charging stations and at home in off-peak hours."
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.
EPRI Tech Transfer Award for Safer Manhole Covers
Innovations
Recognizing a need for underground structure testing, EPRI developed a dedicated test facility to investigate the unique challenges of the underground system.
Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Andrew Ginther
Columbus
"We inducted 13 of our central Ohio auto dealerships into the Electrified Dealer Program whose dealers are committed to carry all electric – plug-in, hybrid, EV models."