What’s coming in the Smart Grid?

Date: January 2014
Publication: American City & County

IEEE Smart Grid Expert Steven Collier offers his viewpoints on the importance of recent smart grid developments and how they affect local governments and the current electric utility business model. A modern, intelligent grid—according to Collier—is dependent on distributed energy generation and storage and the Internet of Things. Both of these burgeoning markets will immensely impact today’s smart grid industry by introducing the new “Grid Edge” — the future’s connected grid and the world’s need for cheap, clean energy. Read more