Smart grid technology is a bridge that connects generation supply, demand and customers. Yet many utility customers do not know how smart grid technologies will affect them. To make it work, we need to know utility customers.

It is no longer a matter of if, but when electric vehicles (EVs) will be fully adopted by the market. In the US, identifying opportunities and implications for EV-to-grid integration is best evaluated from a system-wide perspective.

Energy storage is a transformative technology—it has the potential to change everything. Ultimately developments in storage, especially large-scale applications, will define the speed of evolution within the energy and utility industry.

An informal poll of energy and utility execs taken at the 2009 KEMA Utility of the Future conference indicates that a majority of the audience believes the US will have some kind of carbon legislation by 2010. US Administration could take three potential paths to limit carbon emissions.