This increase in my mind anyway, is a necessary one.
Smart Grid is not the build out of miles and miles of high voltage transmission line.
Should disbursal of these stimulus funds be contingent on development of the standards and protocols?
Smart grid is the future and the program in Boulder demonstrates daily how much potential this technology has.
The promises of a smarter grid are many. Consumers will be able to monitor in real time the amount, price, and even sour...
Congress saw this potential back in 2007 with passage of the Smart Grid provisions in Title XIII of the Energy Independe...
I think that anytime you're developing standards in a realm where the technology itself is rapidly evolving...
I do hope that we will be aggressive, and we will be aggressive before things are put in place.
There is a great deal of funding--Federal funding out there now for NIST for implementation of the smart grid.
The consumer will manage what we can measure.
We don't need to be withholding stimulus moneys, at this point in time, in making certain that those standards and proto...