If governments across the developed world went ahead and created the necessary incentives for the investment needed to develop a Smart Grid and Renewable Power over the next 17 years, to meet the mandatory or proposed CO2 emission standards, they would almost certainly be committing political suicide. The trillions of dollars required would thwart economic growth. Consumers electricity bills would rise exponentially to pay for it and the present fragile economic recovery could become unstable. However there is a solution that is available now that can deliver a significant contribution to meeting the needs of the low carbon economy well within the second decade of the 21st century and it can be achieved at a fraction of the cost of installing a fully operational Smart Grid. Interfacing the hundreds of thousands of Smart Buildings that already exist; through a combination of using advanced BEMS (Building Energy Management Systems) and Enterprise Energy Management (Enterprise Energy Management) […]