Vision
Our Smart Grid vision: smart devices everywhere, to manage energy resources.
Soon, there will be a connected broadband real-time, all-IP network of “smart” devices from substation infrastructure, to distribution infrastructure, and to meters exchanging information and price signals with buildings and homes equipped with distributed generation (e.g. solar PVs), energy storage, smart devices/appliances, and electric vehicles to enable utilities and their customers to optimize energy resources and consumption.
A real-time, all-IP Smart Grid is proactive towards customers and reduces operating costs to the utility.
Making this vision a reality will require transforming the existing energy grid into a real-time, all-IP broadband networked Grid. For utilities, this means:
- Leveraging the existing transmission & distribution infrastructure of meters, capacitor banks, switches, transformers, enclosures, etc.
- Reducing carbon footprint and carbon output
- Satisfying regulatory requirements
- Innovating with demand response programs, new services, and renewables such as solar, wind, etc.
- Meeting changing, growing customer needs
To make the real-time, all-IP Smart Grid and Smart Home happen, utilities should demand full-proof cyber-security and broadband telecommunications technology that is built on open, proven standards.
Utilities (and their customers) deserve a real-time, all-IP Smart Grid that leverages the best efforts of a collaborative ecosystem of vendors, all working to deliver leading technology at the lowest possible cost, with the highest levels of performance.