It was just last week that Secretary of Energy Chu cited the lack of standards and protocols necessary to allow different systems to communicate with one another as the biggest roa...
If we don't have the standards and protocols in place, we spend it, but we don't have the systems.
It's going to be a challenge for us to really educate consumers as to, How do you take advantage of this?
Thank you to Chairman Bingaman for convening this hearing on the timely topic of Smart Grid.
How does DOE propose to undertake this responsibility, just in terms of the information that is out there?
We know that smart grid is not the buildout of miles and miles of high-voltage transmission lines; instead, it's--what w...
Do we have that science and technology, that engineering?
It's just a question of rolling it out and making it more widespread.
Do you have energy auditors that would go in and do that assessment?
We are probably the best example of the highest inefficiency in lighting and in cooling and heating here in these buildi...
But it is something that I appreciate the recognition that you've got to acknowledge the regional differences that we al...