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Smart Grid 2010
A $43B Opportunity for the Communications Market

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Smart grid – an intelligent network that manages the supply and flow of electrical energy from power generators all the way to millions of consumers – is now more a reality than concept. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) pegs the market for smart grid-related communications services and equipment at $43B ... and the worldwide market at $171B. No wonder companies like AT&T, Qwest and Verizon have already established partnerships with leading smart grid firms. NIST just released a roadmap that includes 75 smart grid interoperability standards to help vendors work seamlessly together. And, the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, due March 17, makes specific recommendations on the link between broadband and smart grid.

This information-packed webcast walks you through the basics of smart grid and details the critical piece parts that define how soon and how fast smart grid will take hold nationally. Led by Sam Spencer, editor and publisher of Smart Grid Today, this webcast ...

» Explores the broadband technologies – from wireless, to WiMAX, to wireline – that are critical to smart grid (and why some think Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) gives wireless a big head start!)

» Explains why interoperability standards are the bedrock of smart grid network communications, and are the critical first step for communications applications

» Tells you why heavy hitters like Google, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Siemens – along with all of the traditional communications carriers – are stakeholders in the smart grid space

» Outlines the arguments – on both sides – for who should really build the smart grid, utility or communications companies

» And dozens more facts and insights that get you up to speed on this billion dollar opportunity

Like any emerging technology and application, there’s a ton of buzz around smart grid. Cut through the noise to discover where the real opportunities lie when you listen to this webinar replay.

Sam Spencer is editor and publisher of Smart Grid Today, the leading daily source of hard news and exclusive interviews and insights about the evolving modern utility industry. Spencer has been writing, editing and publishing news about the smart grid and related topics – such as demand response and power and gas markets – for over 10 years and publishing news about utility-industry concerns for almost 20. He is well versed in the technology developments, policy issues, standards concerns and the challenges facing the electric utility industry as it adopts new information technology and communications systems. Spencer confidently carries forth a fervent dedication to precise, 100% advertising-free journalism amid the landscape of fast-changing modern communications and online news-delivery technologies and business models – to deliver news with analysis and depth to paying subscribers via the most cutting edge technology of the day. Sam "grew up" in the trade news industry, has worked in every role in the business (except printer), in every possible department and has been executive, co-owner or manager at several leading industry trade journals serving the electric industry since 1991.

Recorded on March 16, 2010