On May 20th, 2025 the AEG San Antonio Truck Electrification Dinner convened 20 cross-sector leaders to address key challenges and opportunities for medium- and heavy-duty (MD/HD) truck electrification across the Texas Triangle—San Antonio/Austin, Houston, and Dallas–Fort Worth. Participants challenged one another to align on an approach to stakeholder engagement, starting with San Antonio, to expedite progress based on key stakeholder needs and priorities, including economic benefits, community health, and system reliability/resilience.
Amazon’s announcement to locate part of its new headquarters in Arlington, Virginia will be a significant jolt to the economy of the DC metro area. This announcement emphasizes the need for a more sustainable living environment. It has created a new focus on DC’s transportation infrastructure, which already experiences regular traffic bottlenecks from transporting hundreds of thousands of commuters to and from the District each day.
There sense of urgency surrounding Washington D.C’s AEG Q3 Stakeholder Breakfast provided a productive backdrop for the meeting. The room of experts covered the unique challenges facing the DC energy sector and the event culminated in the formation of a task force with the twin goals of collating all the relevant data necessary to create a platform and organizing an event to explore the solutions that can be developed with this data.
The Internet of Things (IoT), Innovation & Technology is a dynamic subject that touches an array of fields that extends outside the energy sector. Washington D.C. is one of numerous cities across the country that are racing to take advantage of the potential improvements from IoT technology that will impact different parts of the city’s ecosystem.
