{"id":149,"date":"2024-03-01T04:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T04:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/?p=149"},"modified":"2024-04-04T02:45:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:45:18","slug":"utilities-and-energy-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/community-economic-development\/utilities-and-energy-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Utilities and Energy Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Utilities and energy services involve businesses that provide essential services like water, electricity, and gas to residents and industries, contributing to the city&#8217;s infrastructure and functioning. May be cooperatively owned and operated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> <strong>Local Utility Providers<\/strong>: Supplying water and managing wastewater.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <strong>Electricity Providers<\/strong>: Distributing electrical power to homes and businesses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <strong>Energy Efficiency Services<\/strong>: Promoting and implementing energy-saving initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Typical Minimal Size of Population<\/strong> Served to be Viable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A small city with a population of around <strong>8,000 to 12,000<\/strong> may support basic utility services, while a population of <strong>15,000<\/strong> or more allows for the development of a more robust and efficient utilities and energy sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: Utilities and energy services involve businesses that provide essential services like water, electricity, and gas to residents and industries, contributing to the city&#8217;s infrastructure and functioning. May be cooperatively owned and operated. Examples: Typical Minimal Size of Population Served to be Viable: A small city with a population of around 8,000 to 12,000 may &#8230; <a title=\"Utilities and Energy Services\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/community-economic-development\/utilities-and-energy-services\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Utilities and Energy Services\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-economic-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/powerlines-4702717_640.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalbrains.ca\/Community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}