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The importance of open standards for broad smart grid adoption

by Tom Raftery on October 1, 2009 · 5 comments

in smart grid

Photo credit Leo Reynolds
If you are not sure why open standards are important, you need to read this quote from the opening address of the The Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference 2005, by then Minister of Science and Technology, Mosibudi Mangena:
The tsunami that devastated South Eastern Asian countries and the north-eastern parts [...]

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September 28th Energy and Sustainability show

by Tom Raftery on September 28, 2009 · 2 comments

in GreenMonkTV, sustainability, video

Here is today’s GreenMonk Energy & Sustainability show. I had a couple of problems with the audio setup starting out so the show started a couple of minutes later than normal. Unfortunately, for some reason the quality of the video recorded by Ustream was atrocious (as you can see above – no idea why that [...]

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The Electricity 2.0 revolution has begun

by Tom Raftery on September 25, 2009 · 7 comments

in smart grid

This is a map of current smart meter/smart grid projects globally overlaid on Google maps.
Screenshot credit Me(!)
I wrote my first Greenmonk post about Smart Grids and Demand Response back in April 2008 and followed up with a few more in the next few weeks including one in June 2008 where I said the electrical [...]

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