At the start of the last decade throughout the world’s developed countries, the electrical transmission and distribution network was pretty much moribund. A static market serviced by a few great names from its illustrious past consolidated to a rigid core; a cash cow that would nevertheless survive for a long time yet. But in the background companies involved in controlling and distributing electricity in the industrial sector had started to overlay intelligent controls to balance supply and demand and reduce consumption through more efficient control. This was the start of smart grid technology. In the meantime the world has confirmed the need to drastically reduce CO2 emissions and thus the need for a “Smart Grid” was born. Memoori has been watching the Smart Grid business for the last 6 months and started to analyse and report on it in January. Since then we have produced three monthly Executive Briefs with this March issue being the […]