Smart City & Utility Industry News

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Larchmont Activates Voltpost Lamppost EV Chargers In First Westchester County Deployment

Aug 12, 2026

The Village of Larchmont, a community of roughly 6,000 residents in southern Westchester County, New York, brought pole-mounted Level 2 electric vehicle chargers online on August 12, 2026, in a municipal parking lot at 61 Wendt Avenue beside the...

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Huelva Awards €71.4 Million Energy Efficiency Contract to Overhaul Public Lighting

Aug 6, 2026

The Huelva City Council awarded a 12 year, €71.4 million energy efficiency contract on August 5, 2026, unifying street lighting, municipal building electrical and thermal systems, and ornamental fountains under a single service for the first time....

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Warsaw Selects Emitel To Build Nearly €18 Million Smart Street Lighting System

Aug 6, 2026

Warsaw’s Zarząd Dróg Miejskich (ZDM), the city’s municipal roads authority, has selected Emitel as the winning bidder to design, build and operate an intelligent street lighting control system covering more than 110,000 luminaires. The...

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Yaiza Opens €400,000 Tender For Playa Blanca Smart Street Lighting

Aug 4, 2026

The Ayuntamiento de Yaiza, the municipal government for the Lanzarote resort town of Playa Blanca in Spain’s Canary Islands, published a public tender on July 31, 2026 worth 400,000 euros to replace street lighting across 22 streets in the...

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Santa Cruz De Bezana To Replace 1,237 Streetlights In €1 Million LED Overhaul

Aug 2, 2026

The Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Bezana, a municipality of roughly 13,000 residents in Cantabria, Spain, is carrying out a full renovation of its outdoor public lighting network, replacing 1,237 light points that still lack LED technology. The...

Upcoming projectStreet LightingChile

Punta Arenas To Install 600 Smart Streetlights With Remote Management System

Jul 17, 2026

The Municipality of Punta Arenas has been awarded 332,107,699 Chilean pesos (roughly US$359,000) by Chile’s Subsecretaría de Desarrollo Regional y Administrativo, known as Subdere, to replace 600 first-generation streetlights in the...

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TALQ Consortium And LUCI Association Form Smart Lighting Partnership

Jul 17, 2026

The TALQ Consortium, a global standards body for interoperable smart city technology, and the LUCI Association, a Lyon-based network of cities focused on urban lighting, announced on July 16, 2026 that they have entered a formal collaboration to...

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Hermosillo Launches Streetlight Remote Management Pilot Across 963 LED Luminaires

Jul 13, 2026

The Gobierno de Hermosillo has switched on a remote streetlight management system covering 963 LED luminaires along the Solidaridad and Ganaderos boulevards, a pilot the Sonora state capital presented on July 12, 2026 as the second phase of a...

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How TALQ Functional Test Cases Ease Investment Decisions of Cities

Jul 9, 2026

Smart city procurement often fails not because cities lack ambition, but because they struggle to translate that ambition into precise technical requirements. In this interview, José Sanchis, Chairman of the TALQ Certification Workgroup, explains...

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Ibiza City Council Completes 1,475-Luminaire LED Streetlight Retrofit With EU Funds

Jul 6, 2026

The Ibiza City Council has finished installing all 1,475 LED luminaires planned under its municipal public lighting overhaul, an intervention delivered by energy services firm Edison Next and financed through the European Union’s...