For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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	October 19, 2009 Smart Grid Technologies: Coming To A Utility Near You Modern IT And Communications Systems Are Transforming The US Power Industry by Roy C. Wildeman with Mike Gilpin, Adam Knoll	Average: 8  (5 ratings)

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Executive Summary

Today's energy companies face an unprecedented quandary of regulatory requirements, market pressures, and public scrutiny that, in combination, act to disrupt traditional approaches to cutting costs and servicing consumers. With the recent federal stimulus package providing further incentive toward action, many utilities are actively pursuing a series of "smart grid" investments that enable better two-way communications with consumers, provide more insights into the state of network operations, and accommodate emerging alternative sources of power generation. As utilities seek to fundamentally shift how they operate, application development and delivery professionals will face new challenges in applying new software and hardware technologies, in implementing a disruptive technology such as smart grid, and in choosing how to align their organizations with the various vendor solution ecosystems that can help tame deployment complexities.

Keywords

• two-way communication
• software
• smarter energy

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• A Vision Of A Smarter Energy Grid Solves A Quandary Of Market Pressures
• Smart Grid Technology Tackles Some Big Issues And Bangs Into Some New Ones

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Plan For The Future, But Build The Business Case For Now

WHAT IT MEANS

• Smart Grid Technology Accelerates The Shift From IT To BT
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