The Smart Grid offers ample opportunities to introduce disruptive technologies and disruptive thinking into the electricity supply chain. Indeed, disruptive technologies and services that enable electricity production at the point of consumption or close to the point of consumption are prime examples of how the entire value chain for electricity may alter in the next [...]
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” Charles F. Kettering, American inventor of the electrical ignition system and early distributed generation devices, made this observation. As an inventor, he had ample experience as a change agent in trying to explain new ideas and technologies to skeptical potential customers [...]