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There is profound promise for the upgrade of the national electrical grid, especially in the wake of the Obama administration's $3.4 billion in dedicated stimulus funding. Given the additional current government emphasis on broadband expansion, it would seem that timing, technological symbiosis, and an influx of funds have created enormous potential for energy transformation fueled by broadband integration. The important role of broadband service providers in smart-grid technology is already being demonsrated in several parts of the United States, where power companies are connecting with legacy broadband networks in order to establish metering solutions. In this report, we detail a variety of broadband-related smart-grid initiatives, and offer projections on smart-grid spending and what it means for broadband service providers. Companies covered in the report include AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, Qwest, Clearwire, Qualcomm, and Cisco.
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- The Need for Enhanced Power Grid Management
- --Defining the Role of Broadband Providers in the Smart Grid
- The Smart Grid in Practice: The Market Landscape To-Date
- A Brief History of the U.S. Power Grid
- Recent Broadband Smart-Grid Developments
- Sprint-Clearwire and WiMAX
- AT&T and Silver Spring Networks
- Verizon and Qualcomm
- iControl, ADT, Comcast, GE, and Cisco
- AT&T and Cooper Power Systems
- Xcel, Qwest, and Current
- AT&T and SmartSynch
- Standards and Interoperability
- Software, Middleware, and Monitoring/Interface Devices
- Security
- Government Initiatives, Programs, and Stimulus
- Smart-Grid Market Outlook
- Conclusions, Recommendations, Risk Assessment
- Opportunities/Strengths
- Obstacles/Risks/Threats
- Recommendations
- Appendix
- A Sampling of Recovery Act Smart-Grid Grant Recipients
- A Sampling of Utility Companies That Have Applied for ARRA Funding
- TABLE OF FIGURES
- Figure 1: Smart-Grid Devices and Software Solutions
- Figure 2: U.S. Smart-Grid Spending
- Figure 3: U.S. Smart-Meter Installation Revenues
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Tim Deal
Tim Deal serves as our Senior Analyst, with a special focus on broadband-enabled consumer electronics devices and on emerging mass market applications such as online video sharing and VoIP-optimized e-commerce. Tim has developed SWOT analyses on such products as the iPhone, the Apple TV service, and rich-media applications on such social networking sites as MySpace. Tim has been providing detailed and actionable competitive intelligence analysis to leading technology firms for more than seven years. In that time he has authored more than one hundred comprehensive syndicated reports and an equal number of custom financial models covering the computing, consumer electronics, digital media, and storage industries. Prior to his career in competitive intelligence, Tim served as a counterintelligence/human intelligence and force protection analyst with the United States Army. Tim lives in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire. Contact Tim at tdeal@pf.com.
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