The Advanced Smart Grid available on Kindle

Review

"The Advanced Smart Grid is the visionary book on smart grids. It is the right book for these times. If you read only one book on the smart grid - you have already picked the right one." (William R. Moroney, Former President & Chief Executive Officer, Utilities Telecom Council) "...a timely, comprehensive and insightful overview of the powerful potential that a truly advanced smart grid has.... Carvallo and Cooper deliver a must-read for anyone interested in the promise and capability of these fast-evolving networks." (Laura Chappelle, J.D., Former Chairman/Commissioner, Michigan Public Service Commission)"

Product Description

Placing emphasis on practical 'how-to' guidance, this cutting-edge resource provides a first-hand, insider's perspective on the advent and evolution of smart grids in the 21st century. Professionals gain a thorough understanding of the building blocks that comprise basic smart grids, including power plant, transmission substation, distribution, and meter automation. Moreover, this forward-looking volume explores the next step of this technology's evolution. It provides a detailed explanation of how an advanced smart grid incorporates demand response with smart appliances and management mechanisms for distributed generation, energy storage, and electric vehicles.

http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Smart-Grid-Sustainability-ebook/dp/B007PJ0V58/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Andres Carvallo Named to 2012 The Networked Grid 100 People

Andres Carvallo, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Proximetry

Andres Carvallo has brought his technical expertise and next-next-thing vision to the smart grid ever since he coined the term “smart grid” as an alternative to EPRI’s “Intelligrid” concept back in 2003, the same year he joined Texas utility Austin Energy. Carvallo ended up as CIO of the utility, which has broken ground on its smart grid efforts. In March 2010, he left Austin to join Grid Net as executive vice president and chief strategy officer, where he led that company’s move away from strict backing of WiMAX toward supporting LTE and other technologies. In April 2011, he made his most recent move to Proximetry, a startup promising an advanced network management platform to keep the smart grid’s disparate systems running.

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As the smart grid market continues to move from the fundamental ‘blocking and tackling’ of infrastructure and communications build-out to a wide swath of new, advanced applications ranging from consumer behavior analytics, to next-gen control and protection, to greentech integration and grid optimization, we thought it helpful to once again call attention to those leading the charge. The global upgrade to Grid 2.0 has billions, if not trillions, of dollars, euros, yen and yuan on the table, as well as the future safety and security of our power grids, and it is not a job for the faint of heart. Luckily, the folks on this list are all on top of it. Are these folks in your Rolodex? If not, they should be.

For a comprehensive understanding of the companies leading the global smart grid market, please refer to The Networked Grid 150: The End-to-End Smart Grid Vendor Ecosystem Profiles and Rankings report.

Lastly, if you are hoping to meet many of the Top 100 Movers and Shakers to both introduce yourself and get autographs, the best place to do that is at the upcoming 4^th annual Networked Grid conference.


http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-networked-grid-100-the-movers-and-shakers-of-the-smart-grid-in-2012/

Andres Carvallo Keynotes UTC Latin America - Brazil

Mr. Carvallo will deliver the opening keynote on March 22^nd.

UTC America Latina Summit 2012 – the Annual Latin America Utility Telecom Conference of the Utilities Telecom Council – will be the largest gathering of ICT executives from electric, gas and water utilities, pipeline companies, and their technology partners from Latin America and the world. The event will feature informative and provocative presentations on utility telecommunication, intelligent grid, advocacy/regulatory issues, latest technologies and financial matters facing utilities throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States. In addition, UTC America Latina Summit 2012 will have special networking opportunities and social events.

UTC America Latina Summit 2012 will be an extension of UTC's International program offered by UTC's International Division.  This division spearheads UTC's global efforts as the telecommunications and ICT professional's trade association for electric and gas utilities, water companies, energy pipelines, and other critical infrastructure companies - united worldwide in their commitment to ensuring the best, most reliable systems and networks critical to their core businesses and the customers they serve.

Founded in 1948 in the United States, UTC is now a multi-national organization with a formal presence in Canada and Europe but members around the world. Working together with its technology partners and other corporate telecom/IT users, UTC's ongoing mission is to create a favorable business, regulatory and technical environment in which its members and stakeholders will thrive. UTC does this through a variety of advocacy, regulatory, technological, information and education programs.  UTC America Latina Summit 2012 will launch UTC's efforts to establish a full service trade association focused on the needs of electric, gas and water utilities, pipeline companies and their technology partners in Latin America.

http://utcal2012.utc.org/

Andres Carvallo Speaks at GridCom Forum West

The GridCom Forum West is an event designed to explore the best of empowering grid communications.

The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) is pleased to present its next educational program in the GridCom Forum series of events entitled GCF West 2012, taking place March 7-9, 2012, at the Westin San Diego in San Diego, California.

Hosted by San Diego Gas & Electric, GCF West will provide a unique conference for electric power utilities, vendors, and suppliers involved in Smart Grid technology deployment.

In the session titled “Open the Grid: Developing a Multi-Application Field Area Network Architecture to Drive Smart Grid Interoperability”, Andres and his co-panelists will explore the long term vision for smart networks, where should utilities start, what requirements, which standards, key challenges, and business cases to build the right network architecture and system.

http://www.gridcomforum.com/GCFWest/index.aspx

http://www.gridcomforum.com/GCFWest/conference/schedule.aspx