ENERGY - The Grid Edge: How Will Utilities, Vendors and Energy Service Providers Adapt?

The term “smart grid” is getting a bit long in the tooth. Here at Greentech Media, we saw this as inevitable. Over the past five years, we have thus referred to it as the "networked grid," with a nod to the underlying communications networks that were a critical first step, and as the "soft grid," as data, analytics, and software applications sprouted atop the infrastructure. As we’ve continued to dig deep into the trends and technologies surrou ...

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