Smart Cities and the Smart Grid

Date: May 22, 2014
Publication: Intelligent Utility

Known as the “Smart Grid Man,” Steven Collier explores the impacts that exponential urban growth has on delivering utility services, particularly electricity. Collier poses that the “smart grid” is vital to urban areas for reasons of providing reliable and sustainable electric power and energy. Electric storage management systems will be deployed at what Collier refers to as the “Grid Edge”—the inevitable transformation of the electric grid via innovation and new technologies. Read more