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Chicago invented the skyscraper. Can it pioneer the best urban sustainable-energy strategies as well? Ann Lok Lui, writes in the Architect’s Newspaper, about city’ s plan to capitalize on the latest advances: Smart-grid technologies that will convert the city’ s iconic skyline into what backers call a “virtual green generator’ by retrofitting highrise buildings and the existing electrical grid to a new hyper-connected intelligent-communications backbone. Simultaneously, researchers at local universities, among them the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, have been developing their own cutting-edge smart-grid technology.
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The Architect’s Newspaper – Smart Grid City