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The MKE FreshAir Collective, a Milwaukee nonprofit that monitors neighborhood air quality, is installing four solar-powered air sensors along the city’s Beerline Trail through September 2026, funded by a $15,000 share of a $100,000 Daybreak...
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health have begun publicly releasing data from Open Air Chicago, a 277-sensor hyperlocal air quality network the city describes as the largest...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide €100 million to PWN, the publicly owned drinking water utility for the Dutch province of North Holland, under a loan announced on 10 July 2026. The financing, backed by the European...
Abu Dhabi’s Integrated Transport Centre (Abu Dhabi Mobility), an affiliate of the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT), inaugurated a central control room on 10 July 2026 to manage and monitor autonomous vehicle operations across...
Bohr Energie, a Toulouse-based aggregator of distributed renewable and flexible energy assets, has raised €10 million in a Series A round led by Spanish investor Suma Capital, the parties announced on 8 July 2026. The French scaleup currently...
Piq Energy, a San Francisco software company building an agentic platform for grid planning, has raised an oversubscribed $5 million seed round to speed up how utilities and developers connect new projects to the power grid. The financing, announced...
London-based Axle Energy, a virtual power plant software company, has raised $25 million (about €21 million, or roughly £20 million) in a Series A round led by Energize Capital to expand its distributed energy platform across the United Kingdom...
Azienda Meridionale Acque Messina (AMAM), the in-house utility that runs the water service in Messina, has finished construction on a roughly €21 million programme to modernize and digitalize the city’s distribution network, and the project...
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...
Dundee City Council has installed low-cost PM2.5 air quality sensors at three primary schools in the city, using the deployment to publish real-time pollution readings and to anchor a new pupil education campaign. The sensors went live at Glebelands...
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