Infrastructure
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The local government’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appropriate the funds for a “comprehensive technology infrastructure remediation project.” It comes in response to a critical IT outage last summer. -
National Grid is expected to install the devices for 121,000 customers in the city. They will enable people to track energy usage via a portal, and will immediately alert the utility to power outages.
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A new report from the Urban Institute outlines how many of the projects developed as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including technology work, have been slow to finish and deploy.
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While semi-autonomous cars are available today, every major car company and several giant corporations are racing to test even tastier tech in the labs and on the street.
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By 2022, more than 82 million cars globally will be connected to the Web – triple the number today. But the technologies that let cars hook up with phones and tablets also make them vulnerable.
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The British newspaper the Guardian learned that the Contra Costa Transportation Authority has signed a non-disclosure agreement with Apple.
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Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s $1.2 million Resilient Grid Initiative will install high-voltage switches and increase the carrying capacity of the system.
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IBM is trying to solve a big problem with solar power: You can't pump out much electricity on a cloudy day.
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Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., is expected to cut energy consumption by 40 percent upon the 2017 completion of a 15-year retrofitting project.
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Once a middle-class status symbol, Toronto's 3,200 residential towers are aging into overcrowded homes for the poor. Several efforts are underway to refurbish the towers and stitch them into the modern city.
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Sam Blakeslee, who heads up the Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy at Cal Poly, warns failure to keep up can disconnect government and citizens.
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The City Council unanimously approved a $100,000 contract with a consulting firm that will explore the feasibility of treating brackish water pumped from the San Joaquin River.
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Leaders discussed strategies for putting new technologies into place to deal with such problems as air pollution, drought and climate change while also calling for 50 percent of California’s power to come from renewable sources by 2030.
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal has requested a detailed plan and explanation as to how the FRA will hold railroads accountable for their deliberate or negligent failure to comply with an existing legal deadline.
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The more water people save, the more money utilities lose. But new pricing models could change that.
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If car travel is going to remain common, perhaps we need to be smarter about how we build and use them.
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Cobbcommute.org provides drivers with real-time information about congestion, travel speeds and road closures on the county’s arterial roads.
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Low-tech offers an elegant solution to water loss and environmental threats
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The team will work on improving several aspects of the process solar power plants use to turn heat from the sun into a fluid with thermal energy that can be converted to electricity.
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Adding batteries to rooftop solar energy systems has “huge” potential to reshape the industry.
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The project will reduce flooding, improve water destined for the Los Angeles River and recharge the San Fernando Groundwater Basin with up to 13 million gallons of water per year.
