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Smart Grid: How communications will transform utilities Product Image

Smart Grid: How communications will transform utilities

  • Published: August 2011
  • Region: World
  • 22 Pages
  • TM Forum

TM Forum Quick Insights reports take the communications industry’s hottest topics and offer preliminary research and analysis, often including interviews with senior executives and ideas from corresponding executive roundtables discussions. Written by renowned industry journalists and analysts, these reports ask the questions we all want to know of opinion-leading senior executives.

A smart grid is a way to manage the delivery of electricity from suppliers to consumers in a way that saves energy, reduces costs and increases the reliability and transparency of power services. Most electricity providers are not prepared for these demands, in terms of culture or technology.

smart grid achieves all this via two-way digital communications, which will most probably be deployed as an overlay to the electrical power grid. As well as running the grid more efficiently, this could also allow the electricity supplier to control a range of devices at consumers' homes, business premises and industrial plants, as well work with a greater range of sources of power.

As the smart grid is deployed, the relationships between utilities and their customers, which have been relatively READ MORE >

Executive Summary

Section 1: How the energy industry works now

Section 2: What is the smart grid and why do we need it?

Section 3: Smart grids face challenges

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