Any reader looking through the media content on smart grid for the first time could be forgiven for assuming that smart meters and the smart grid are one and the same thing. Numerous market studies have provided detailed information on the size of the smart meter market for the last 5 years. However data on the comprehensive smart grid is scarce and difficult to find. When you think you have found it, it is often full of anomalies primarily because it lacks definition. In the last two months a number of market research reports have been published and here is some of their market sizing details; ABI says that while $41 billion will be invested into adding digital intelligence to utilities’ transmission and distribution networks between now and 2015, only $4.8 billion (around 10%) will be spent on smart meters over that time period. ABI’s overall smart grid market prediction looks low when compared with […]