smart city

Business / Corporate Jul 5, 2019

Marubeni consortium gets OK to power Philippines 'smart city' project

A consortium involving Manila Electric Co. and three Japanese companies including trading house Marubeni Corp. has received approval to power the Philippines' first "smart city," which is to be developed at a former U.S. military base. The power will apparently be supplied by a private-public ...

National Sep 24, 2017

Quiet energy revolution underway in Japan as dozens of towns go off the grid

by Aaron Sheldrick and Osamu Tsukimori

A Miyagi city's efforts to rebuild its electrical power system after 3/11 mark a quiet shift away from Japan's old utility model and toward self-reliant, local generation and transmission. After losing three-quarters of its homes and 1,100 people in the March 2011 Great East Japan ...