Matt Lecar is Director of Utility Practice at Global Smart Energy, a research and consulting firm providing intelligence and insight for the new world of smart, clean energy. He is a featured speaker at the Smart Metering West Coast conference and co-author of the Advanced Metering Opportunities Report and Market Pulse Supplement.
BPL'S big week
In my last column, I talked about the long road that Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has followed to its current “tipping point” in the marketplace. This time, I’ll take a fresh look at Broadband over Powerline (BPL), which has also spent years wandering in the innovation...
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PG&E's AMI business case: why pain makes things feel better
In previous columns, I’ve talked about the challenges of utility innovation and the difficulty of guiding a new technology from pilot to implementation. No technology better demonstrates that tortuous path than advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
The good news...
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The Utility Innovator's Dilemma - Part 2
In my first column I talked about the challenges of innovation in the utility context. Whether you are an outside vendor trying to sell or a utility employee trying to change the way things are done, you have probably met many of the obstacles I described. The internal business pro...
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The Utility Innovator’s Dilemma - Part 1
It’s not easy to innovate in the electric utility environment. Don’t just take my word for it. Ask any vendor who has tried to introduce a piece of new technology, no matter how proven or useful, and you’ll hear the same refrain: it’s easy to get a pilot, hard to ...
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