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Smart energy is a strategic and significant part of any smart city concept. Our predictive analytics technologies and services enable the planning and operation of municipal assets, reducing energy costs and improving a city’s environmental footprint.
Cities are no longer simply power utility customers. A secure, affordable and clean energy future is now a shared responsibility among utilities, municipalities, citizens and businesses.
Climate change mitigation and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction present a new set of challenges for communities, and with them opportunities in land development, infrastructure choice, job creation and investment attraction. Our predictive analytics capacity and community energy planning expertise help public leaders make effective clean energy decisions and shape the policy and regulation around them.
Our strategic approach to energy management
Every community has access to clean energy, but using it on building roofs and walls requires an inventory of what is there. We build urban solar resource maps that locate and quantify clean energy assets, giving municipal governments room to weigh generation opportunities against land use policy, energy incentives, urban planning and solar access law.
The SolarStar™ rating system gives homes and facilities an objective measure of their suitability to generate solar energy in a specific geographic location. It offers a quick reference to a building’s solar potential and a first step in selecting candidates for solar electricity or hot water technologies, with our energy engineers joining community planning teams to get the design right the first time.
Continued growth in solar deployment means municipal assets must deliver on expected generation, return and GHG reductions. Alongside careful siting, engineering and installation, ongoing monitoring minimises operational losses and maximises return — and a visual interface lets citizens see the emissions reductions their community’s solar has achieved.
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