Monday, April 27, 2009

Kim Hart - Engineering a Smart Grid For Energy's Future - washingtonpost.com

Smart-grid projects require many components -- digital meters and software systems, for example -- allowing both smaller and larger firms to compete. Current started out aiming to provide broadband service over power lines, but shifted to providing the grid communications system when utilities' adoption of Internet via power lines was slower than expected. GridPoint initially produced appliances to store energy produced by solar panels.
Kim Hart - Engineering a Smart Grid For Energy's Future - washingtonpost.com

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