smart cities
Finance and Policy
Roundtable 26 May: Building Wakanda: Separating fact from fiction
During his State of the Nation address in February 2021, South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa announced the formation of a number of smart city developments for the country.
Finance and Policy
The Digital Dialogues – Join the conversation
Enlit Africa and ESI Africa are joining forces to produce a series of virtual roundtables – The Digital Dialogues. Apply to secure your free-to-attend seat.
Smart Technologies
Ask an expert: How to enable EV growth through smart solutions
Lucy Electric explores the solutions to overcome the EV growth challenge, which puts pressure on already highly utilised assets, especially in dense urban areas.
Smart Technologies
Commentary: Smart cities play integral role in urban sustainability
Smart cities are much more than a city that is digitally enabled and teeming with technology. Smart cities are cities that centre innovation in all its forms in fulfilling their purpose and promote best practices in urban sustainability.
Future Energy
Global pandemic highlights battle of cities for cleaner air
The 2021 edition of REN21’s Renewables in Cities Global Status Report shows the number of cities who have enforced partial or complete bans on fossil fuel jumped five-fold during 2020.
Smart Technologies
View of a sustainable grid for the future – video
Engineering expertise enabling utility networks to meet their responsibilities to support sustainable, secure and affordable energy.
Finance and Policy
Cities have one chance to leverage pandemic for sustainability
March 2021 marks one year since the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Cities are now on the front line of this crisis, with dwindling economic activity, high infection rates, and inadequate resources.
Future Energy
Stellenbosch sets goal to be the first municipality without loadshedding
A South African municipality boasts having some of the brightest minds in the energy sector right on its doorstep to lead the race to generate and purchase electricity from IPPs.
Smart Technologies
Renewables, energy storage and the future of smart cities
"Without sustainability, the smart cities we envision are likely to remain closer to fiction than reality," Seydou Kane, managing director for Eaton Africa.
Smart Technologies
Enel, Schneider and WEF publish first toolkit for net-zero cities
Schneider Electric, the Enel Group and World Economic Forum have published the first deliverable of the Net Zero Carbon Cities – Systemic Efficiency Initiative.
