We offer a range of consulting services targeted to Smart Grid startups, industry vendors, and investment firms, and utilities.  Our consultants have decades of combined experience working with utilities, telecommunications service providers, and consumer products and services companies to contribute to our client engagements.

Utilities

Smart Grid technology and services initiatives introduce new solutions and programs that impact residential, commercial, and/or industrial consumer segments and the value these segments have to utilities.  Our innovative Consumer Focus Strategy helps utilities develop and maintain the trusted advisor relationships with consumers and create strategic opportunities to build consumer value.

Smart Grid Startups and Investment Firms

Finding success in the dynamic Smart Grid ecosystem is challenging for established companies, and doubly so for entrepreneurs and their investors.  Our industry knowledge and contacts assist startups in building strategic roadmaps and relationships that lead to successful business development and commercialization.

Industry Vendors

Rapid growth in business opportunities strains existing business development and marketing resources, but operating budgets don’t always allow for additional headcount.  Our consulting team can supplement your efforts with invaluable outside perspectives that sharpen and enhance your business focus and messages.

To learn more about how we can help you, please contact:  consultingservices@smartgridlibrary.com

 

About our Principals

Christine Hertzog

Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid technologies and solutions. She has two decades of experience helping companies that range from small start-ups to multi-national corporations deliver competitive and cost-effective solutions and services to customers. Her work often involves introductions of visible and disruptive products or services to customers, and the use of management and communications strategies and tactics to enable consumer acceptance of change.  She also helps clients understand and navigate the Smart Grid ecosystem of emerging technologies and markets.

Christine is a frequent presenter on Smart Grid topics and writes a weekly, syndicated blog about the challenges and opportunities that Smart Grid solutions bring to the evolving electricity supply chain and their impacts.  She is the first Smart Grid Executive in Residence at Plug and Play Tech Center, a premier technology incubator in Silicon Valley.  She is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of ElectricityPolicy.com, the Energy Collective, and the FountainBlue Clean Tech seminar series.  She is also active in the NIST Cyber Security subgroup focused on data privacy standards recommendations.

 

Bill Maikranz

Bill Maikranz is a consultant who has invested over 20 years in helping companies design, deploy, and manage cost-effective and consumer-focused contact center technologies and services.  These include voice carrier networks, telephone systems that manage calls and the data systems, and full-service and self-service applications.  He has conducted extensive analyses of technologies to engineer optimized voice and data networks; assessed the pros and cons of acquisition versus outsourcing or SaaS for applications and services; recommended and deployed appropriate contact center applications based on customer needs; and mapped data interactions between front and back office applications to ensure maximized value of computer-telephone integrations.

His customers range from large multi-national consumer products companies to small to large utilities and services organizations.  As the Consulting Director of the Smart Grid Library, Bill helps clients avoid bleeding edge technologies in favor of leading edge solutions that actually work.

To learn more about how we can help you, please contact: consultingservices@smartgridlibrary.com