An article by Newton-Evans CEO Charles Newton titled Thinking Smart: The Outlook for Spending on Smart Grid Technologies in 2009 and Beyond was recently featured in Volume 9 of the Energy and Utilities Project magazine, an mThink publication sponsored by IBM. The majority of the article summarized the spending outlook for eight major components of the smart grid: control systems, smart grid applications, substation automation programs, substation IEDs and devices, AMI/AMR, protection and control, distribution network automation, and telecommunications infrastructure. Additionally, Mr. Newton provided a general picture of the types of initiatives that need to be taken by individual utilities on a case by case basis to put smart grid technology to work for them:
“I have often compared the evolution of the smart grid to the iterative process of building the international space station: a long term strategy, a flexible planning environment, responsive changes incorporated into the plan as technology develops and matures, properly phased.What function we might need is that of a skilled smart grid architect to oversee the increasingly complex duties of an effective systems planning unit within the utility organization.”
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