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Empowering Customers & Cities
2016-06-03 19:42:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Empowering Customers & Cities is all about the utility of the future. It charts a course for re-imagining energy production, usage and delivery. Location Swissôtel Chicago 323 East Upper Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60601 United States 41° 53' 14.0928" N, 87° 37' 10.1892" W See map: Google Maps The Energy Times is hosting the second annual Empowering Customers & Cities conference November 1-2 in Chicago Renewable energy is now being deployed at an ever faster clip. America’s energy storage resources are poised for huge growth as the world’s leading battery production assembly plant is completed. Homeowners, building owners, tenants and local stores race to become more energy efficient. Utilities are scrambling to figure out how to integrate fast-growing distributed resources. Regulators, legislators and vendors are scratching their heads, trying to figure out their role in this fast-changing electric grid. Cities want to know how to tap this ferment to better serve their citizens with economic development and a cleaner environment. Join us this November, as the leading thought leaders in this electric power, economic, technological, social and urban transformation come together to consider the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. Featuring: Jeremy Rifkin, Author of "The Zero Marginal Cost Society" Anne Pramaggiore, President & CEO, ComEd Thomas Birr, Chief Strategy Officer, RWE David Owens, Senior Vice President, EEI Erwin Van Laethem, Former Chief Innovation Officer, RWE Group; Former CEO, Essent Christopher Wheat, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Chicago Learn more about Empowering Customers & Cities here. Join us in Chicago. read more
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Cities must take the lead to low carbon transition
2016-06-02 08:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Live: Cities across the globe must take the lead in the transition to a low carbon energy sector. They account for up to two-thirds of the potential to cost effectively reduce global carbon emissions, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Its new report forecasts at least two-thirds of the growth in global final energy demand will come from cities in emerging and developing economies by 2050, doubling energy-related CO2 emissions if policies don`t change. That`s because a large portion...
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Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival
2016-05-31 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival Gary, Indiana is joining Detroit and other fading U.S. industrial centers in an effort to turn abandoned neighborhoods and factory sites into gardens, parks, and forests. In addition to the environmental benefits, these greening initiatives may help catalyze an economic recovery. Depending on how you look at it, Gary, Indiana is facing either the greatest crisis in its 110-year history, or the greatest opportunity. The once-prosperous...
100 Resilient Cities initiative reaches members target
2016-05-31 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Action: The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities initiative reached its target last week of securing 100 member cities within three years of being created. The global 100RC initiative is designed to enhance urban resilience and it welcomed 37 new member cities to its network last week. Cities worldwide are facing the issues of increasing population growth and concentration, and the rapid depletion of natural resources, making them vulnerable to climate change impacts including floods, typhoons,...
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7 monuments, cities world treasures could lose rising sea levels
2016-05-27 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: 7 monuments, cities and world treasures we could lose to rising sea levels These are just a sample of the things we could lose if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 200 years. Every year the worldwide sea level rises about 3 mm. That doesnt sound like much, just a little over a 1/10 of an inch, but even that small rise spread out over the entire ocean is a lot of water. Multiply that over years and decades, factor in an increased rate of rise (thanks to our growing addiction...
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