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The complete Mark and Focus analysis archive.
Smart water monitoring gives households timely consumption data and leak alerts. LADWP’s Flume offer shows how utility discounts, self-installation, and installation-linked refunds can reduce adoption barriers and turn meter data into earlier action.
Read analysisSouth Africa's latest infrastructure portfolio pairs more visible project pipelines with preparation funding, municipal capability, quarterly reporting, and regional interoperability.
Read analysisBrazil's new national reference standard gives water and wastewater regulators common accounting and asset-control manuals. The reform aims to make tariffs, investment, performance, and compensation decisions rest on comparable financial records.
Read analysisGermany's cabinet has agreed principles for a new heat-network law that combines investment recovery with price disclosure, oversight, customer adjustment rights, and dispute resolution. The tariff is becoming part of infrastructure reform.
Read analysisSpain's draft decree would tie large data-center grid access to hourly renewable matching, water and energy efficiency, and EU control of operational data. The proposal turns infrastructure admission into an enforceable bargain.
Read analysisIndonesia has launched a 100 GWp solar program with 14 initial projects totaling about 5.3 GWp. Its credibility now rests on translating very different sites into financeable, connected, maintainable electricity services.
Read analysisPoland’s cabinet-backed permit bill removes a preliminary review after new EU best-available-technique conclusions, replaces it with a 60-day notice, reallocates permits for nuclear and LNG support installations, and extends inspection authority offshore.
Read analysisChina stopped accepting new-chemical filings on 15 August and now requires qualifying manufacturers and importers to obtain approval before market activity.
Read analysisFrance’s new ultra-fast-fashion malus can add up to 50 per cent to a garment’s price from 1 September. Its real test is whether a measurable commercial definition changes product strategy rather than merely labeling a disliked business model.
Read analysisJapan has opened consultation on rules for a streamlined environmental-assessment document for replacement infrastructure. The proposal relies on evidence from existing operations when a new facility remains sufficiently similar in type, location and scale.
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