Reportlinker Adds Smart Grids: Not a Smart Business for Telcos -- Yet

NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Smart Grids: Not a Smart Business for Telcos—Yet

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The Time Is Ripe for Smart Grids

Smart energy grids—the term used to describe the upgrade of 20th century power grids to become intelligent and networked, reducing costs and increasing efficiency and reliability—have long been discussed, and early versions of smart meters in the form of Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) devices have been in use for several years with limited success. These early versions, which tended to be experimental or focused on only large commercial customers, had low levels of functionality and were proprietary in nature, making them less conducive to industry-wide economies of scale.

Today, however, we find ourselves on the verge of a perfect combination of technical innovation, increased demand, resource scarcity and government intervention that promises to take smart grids from vision to reality. For example, in the U.S. under the Obama administration, billions of stimulus dollars are flowing into smart grid efforts, and the initial tranches of investment have been recently deployed with the aim of viability testing. Morgan Stanley estimates that smart grid market spending could reach up to $100 billion in 2030, up from the $20 billion spent on it today (its numbers include AMR devices, demand response and advanced transmission but omit operational cost line items such as network outsourcing). Yankee Group's own internal estimates find the number of smart meters deployed in the U.S. will increase from 13.6 million in 2010 to 52 million in 2013.

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