By Lou Covey

NewTechPress Editorial Director

The establishment of the smart grid is an inevitability, according to experts speaking at the Smart Power Grid Technology Conference, but depending on power utilities, government and “field of dreams marketing” will only delay it.  That’s why the latent industry needs the help of the electronic design community, according to speakers at the event put on by ISQED.

Edward Cazalet, CEO of the Cazalet Group, and Tom Tamarkin, CEO of EnergyCite, painted a picture, for 100+ design engineers at the fledgling conference, of an industry that is ready to spread …

The Smart Power Grid Technology Conference (May 12 at the Santa Clara Biltmore, should be on a lot of calendars this coming May.  Smart grid tech is a major new industry that is receiving a lot of bad press from a lack of knowledge and the only way to overcome that is by educating ourselves.

In particular, the session on  ”The Transformation of Ratepayers into Customers” will be a significant piece of information. Tom Tamarkin, president of the Uttility Services Customer Link, will set out a definition for the term “smart meters” that takes into account the …

Brett Cline of Forte Design talks about ESL in this fifth part in the series of interviews from DAC 2010 in Anaheim.
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Second in the series of interviews done live at the 2010. Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, Sponsored by Vpype and Magma Design Automation.
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Third in the archived series of live videos from DAC 2010, sponsored by Magma Design and Vpype.
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