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Not so Smart Grids, doomed to fail?

by Tom Raftery on July 20, 2009 · 3 comments

in demand response, smart grid

Photo credit Mikey aka DaSkinnyBlackMan in Iraq
I was invited by James McClelland and Maureen Coveney to participate in a panel at SAP’s Sapphire conference earlier this year discussing Smart Grids.
One of the key points I made was that utilities are not used to having to deal with customers. The only real interactions utilities [...]

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SAP software for utilities cost-to-serve and carbon reporting demo

by Tom Raftery on June 2, 2009 · 0 comments

in GreenMonkTV, video

At the Sapphire 2009 event in Orlando Chad Leonard from SAP gave us a demo of some interesting software for utilities which addresses the cost to serve model and CO2 reporting.
[Disclosure: SAP paid my travel and expenses for attending Sapphire]

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SAP’s James McClelland discusses the changing role of software for utilities

by Tom Raftery on May 27, 2009 · 2 comments

in GreenMonkTV, energy, video

I met James McClelland at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando a couple of weeks back.
We had a great chat about utilities, smart grids and the changing role of software for utility companies which I recorded and am publishing here now.

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