April 27th, 2020 | by NRDC
Some good news for cleaner air: the City of Chicago is taking decisive steps to ensure it is a hub for electric vehicles (EVs). The City Council passed an ordinance on Friday strengthening requirements for EV readiness at commercial and residential buildings, promoting more equitable access to this emerging technology throughout the city
April 18th, 2020 | by World Resources Institute
As the world works to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 3.9 billion people are under full or partial lockdown orders, as of mid-April. Cities have curtailed many public transit operations because of declining ridership and health concerns
May 23rd, 2019 | by Kyle Field
sonnen Partners On Passive House Community Powered By Smart Energy Storage
December 19th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tonight, The Boring Company took the wraps off of its demonstration tunnel in Hawthorne, California. The tunnel starts in the vicinity of the SpaceX parking lot, which was usurped for The Boring Company to start playing with its less than exciting technology
September 5th, 2018 | by Jake Richardson
Car2go recently announced that it has expanded into Chicago, where it now has 400 vehicles available — the smart fortwo and Mercedes-Benz CLA and GLA models. Kendell Kelton, the Communications Manager for Car2go North America, answered some questions about the expansion for CleanTechnica
August 26th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
Lidar is a sensor that's used for a variety of purposes. Almost every autonomous vehicle program in the world except for Tesla's uses lidar sensors. This article isn't about the uses or qualities of the sensors, however, it's about how to spell the word. I’ve been struggling with it for years, personally, but had never looked it up in a style book
August 6th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Leading US residential solar provider Vivint Solar made two announcements last week, revealing its expansion into the state of Illinois a day before it announced a partnership with one of the country's largest homebuilders in preparation for California's upcoming mandate for rooftop solar installations on new homes.
May 2nd, 2018 | by Andrea Bertoli
The 3rd Grid Modernization Forum is intended for network strategists at investor-owned, municipal, and rural utilities, as well as grid operations engineers and directors, service and network planners, system integrators, policy-makers, and technology innovators. Key utility and technology executives will share insights and updates on achieving the digital Utility of the Future
April 30th, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
A fight in California exposes a rift among city dwellers as to how to provide more affordable housing
December 7th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
More than 50 mayors from around the world, including 36 from the United States, have gathered at the North American Climate Summit and signed the Chicago Climate Charter, a first-of-its-kind international charter on climate change that seeks to allow cities to commit to the Paris Climate Agreement.
November 30th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
In the late 19th century, trolley tracks and an elevated railway ran around the entire circumference of the city of Chicago. The encircling infrastructure came to be known as The Loop. The name stuck and is still used to refer to the central part of downtown Chicago today. It may even have been in Elon Musk's subconscious mind the day he dreamed up his Hyperloop concept
September 11th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Charging infrastructure for urban areas is a problem. With open land at a premium in congested cities, finding room to install chargers can be a challenge. Tesla is aware of the issue and, as usual, is being proactive in its response. On September 11, Tesla posted on its blog that it has developed a new compact Tesla Supercharger specifically for use in cities
April 11th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced this week that the city has committed to ensure all government buildings will be powered by 100% renewable electricity by 2025, which would make the city the country's largest major city to power all their public buildings from 100% renewable electricity.
March 17th, 2017 | by Cynthia Shahan
Rush hour Chicago provides an untapped income for the city of Chicago. Traffic enforcement could pick up funds from well-deserved traffic tickets. It seems no one is getting a ticket and the chaos continues. The larger question is — after $32 million of taxpayer money to build it, is the Loop Link being used as intended? No, not much, it seems. It was designed for fluid, fast, reliable movement — time-saving, much-needed flow for the city's buses. Lost? The Loop Link is specially marked bus lanes meant to offer mass transit an unfettered flight during rush hour times. And yet
November 29th, 2016 | by Cynthia Shahan
Riding public transportation is a vital means of saving money, money that can much more happily be spent on other things than on owning, driving, and maintaining a car. Transit riders can forget about auto insurance, car payments, fuel costs, tuneups at the mechanic, expensive broken car parts, etc
October 27th, 2016 | by Tina Casey
The EV company Proterra has been steamrolling over the diesel bus market, and it looks like downtown Chicago is the latest proving ground.
September 5th, 2016 | by Mira Bai Shahan
Originally published on Bikocity. A whole new form of public transportation may be coming to Chicago soon, one that literally [&hellip
August 17th, 2016 | by Jake Richardson
In 2014, ComEd launched the IceBox Derby to help girls have a team-oriented STEM learning experience with adult mentors, while having [&hellip
August 1st, 2016 | by John Farrell
Originally published on ilsr.org. Below is part three of our City Power Play report, a report released in October 2013 (and still [&hellip
June 28th, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
If you live in Chicago, then you can get yourself a Nest Learning Thermostat at no cost, and you only [&hellip
