• Synthesia, a UK-based startup developing video AI technology, raised $3.1m in funding. LDV Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including MMC Ventures, Seedcamp, VAS Ventures and TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus.

Katherine May, chief performance officer for the city of Rochester, said while she’s overall supportive of the Smart City concept, she urges localities to apply the brakes when weighing deep investments and to ensure the proper groundwork and basic infrastructure is in place so initiatives are deployed effectively.

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A World Resources Institute and Boston University analysis spearheaded by WRI’s Lihuan Zhou released earlier this year showed that China Eximbank and CDB, which did most of the lending for power capacity and transmission, only directed about 5.3% of its energy loans to wind and solar projects between 2014 and 2017—a combined $2.4 billion. By contrast, non-hydropower renewables make up at least a quarter of the World Bank’s energy loans.

According to Rosenberg, the company is currently at the pre-development stage, with production of expected to begin within the next two months.

29 March 2019 - The implementation of the “Smart City Concept” within the Municipality of Budva includes the realisation of a pilot project related to the introduction of modern technologies, especially the promotion of the use of solar energy.

However, if Cree continues to improve the life of its products while, at the same time, reducing production costs in China, there’s the very real possibility that the marijuana industry could regularly use LEDs to lower their long-term production costs.

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The storage technologies are typically governed by the bid documents. In one of the recent tenders under NSM, SECI invited tenders for setting up grid-connected solar PV projects along with a large-scale battery energy storage system. The selection of the storage system was technology agnostic, that is, the bidders were free to choose any battery storage technology; however, they were required to meet the performance and operating standards as provided in the bid documents, including adherence to international standards.

But observers hope that trajectory will end soon. Groups like WRI and NRDC contributed to a new green Belt and Road alliance that the Chinese government launched at this week’s forum, possibly in response to mounting criticism of the environmental and climate toll of its early projects.

The ventilation also allows for airflow through the luminaire to move dust and cool down the LED so it can achieve the highest efficiency, she added.