Smart Grid Library

The Smart Grid increases our energy security by reducing dependence on oil that only gets more costly to extract or protect.  The Smart Grid improves our economic security with a 21st century energy infrastructure that allows us to cost-effectively participate in competitive global markets.  The Smart Grid also creates new domestic white collar and blue [...]

The political events in the Middle East and North Africa are raising global oil prices and causing economies to wobble.  The easy and inexpensively extracted oil has been exploited, and what sources remain, like tar sands, consume ever more energy, water, and money for extraction.  Oil, as one of the primary fossil fuels in our [...]

The news coming from PG&E these days is trending from bad to worse for the Smart Grid and for this country’s citizens.  First they created a public relations disaster with their smart meter rollout, which now has its own term called “the Bakersfield effect”.  PG&E investment in a sensible communications plan and budget could have [...]

I recently presented a global overview of the Smart Grid for the Smart ICT Sustainability Virtual Summit.  You can listen to the presentation “The Smart Grid value chain – myths and realities” by clicking here to register – it’s free.  Virtual summits are a great way to share information without the hassle and carbon footprints [...]