Exhibit spotlights new Smart
Neighborhoods™ collaboration between Nicor Gas, Fox
Valley Habitat for Humanity and the City
of Aurora
AURORA,
Ill., Feb. 14, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The City of Aurora
and Nicor Gas announced today the unveiling of a new
educational exhibit on Smart Cities on the first floor of the
Development Services Building at City Hall. The ribbon cutting for
the new exhibit will take place on February
14, 2024.
The exhibit tells the story of how smart and connected
technologies, when combined with smart energy strategies, are
creating a more sustainable City of
Aurora. The exhibit also showcases the new Nicor Gas
Smart Neighborhoods™, an affordable net zero community
being built in Aurora in
cooperation with Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity. The community
fiber services provider, OnLight Aurora, will be playing a
strategic role in laying the communications infrastructure for the
development.
"Aurora is focused on IT,
innovation, and ingenuity as we strive to be the smartest city in
America," said Aurora Mayor
Richard C. Irvin. "The Aurora-based Nicor Gas Smart Neighborhood is a
beacon of light and leadership in smart energy solutions, and its
accompanying new educational exhibit will help to inform and
inspire our community."
"We are so pleased to announce the opening of this new
educational exhibit to help tell the story of how innovation in
natural gas plays a key role in our country's overall energy
strategy – and is essential in creating an affordable and
sustainable future for Illinois,"
said Meena Beyers, vice president of
community & business development at Nicor Gas.
Learn more about the Nicor Gas Smart Neighborhoods™
at NGSmartNeighborhoods.com.
About Nicor Gas
Nicor Gas is one of four
natural gas distribution companies of Southern Company Gas, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO). Nicor Gas
serves more than 2.3 million customers in a service territory that
encompasses most of the northern third of Illinois, excluding the city of Chicago. For more information, visit
nicorgas.com.
About Habitat for Humanity
Driven by the
vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat for
Humanity found its earliest inspirations as a grassroots movement
on an interracial community farm in south Georgia. Since its founding in 1976, the
Christian housing organization has since grown to become a leading
global nonprofit working in local communities across all 50 states
in the U.S. and in more than 70 countries. Families and individuals
in need of a hand up partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or
improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build
their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable
mortgage. Through financial support, volunteering or adding a voice
to support affordable housing, everyone can help families achieve
the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better
lives for themselves. Through shelter, we empower. To learn more,
visit habitat.org.
About Southern Company Smart
Neighborhoods™
Smart Neighborhoods is a
trademarked brand of Southern Company, the ultimate parent company
of Nicor Gas. Smart Neighborhoods advance energy technologies that
work together as a part of an affordable, reliable clean energy
economy. They lead to job creation, diverse business partnerships,
economic development, and green transportation. The Aurora community will be the first Smart
Neighborhood to be built in Illinois and will launch a two-year research
study to examine how natural gas can be part of the solution toward
meeting net zero energy goals. Learn more at
ngsmartneighborhoods.com.
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