Smart Grid
The Consumer Interface of the Smart Grid Business is where the Building Controls Suppliers are now Focused
July 5th, 2012The Smart Grid is Dead, Long Live Smart Grid
June 18th, 2012White Paper: Why Interfacing Smart Grid with Smart Buildings is the Perfect Union
The Central Electricity Generation, Transmission & Distribution business model for over a century has been to build and operate a base load capacity to meet the very maximum demand needed. This has created an inefficient system because central power generating plant cannot be rapidly ramped up and down and electricity cannot yet be stored on […]
White Paper: Strategic Acquisitions in the Smart Building to Smart Grid Space
Although the Smart Building Smart Grid Interface business is still in its infancy just a quick take on the strategic acquisitions that have been made over the last 2 years makes a strong statement that the world’s major suppliers see this as a great opportunity to extend their business for they have invested heavily in […]
Why Interfacing Smart Buildings With Smart Grid Will Develop Into Multi-Billion Dollar Business
There is an almost perfect case for interfacing Smart Buildings with Smart Grid because all the stakeholders win. It will require minimum technical and commercial risk and decades of latent potential business is stacked up waiting to be converted. The driver for this business is, Negawatts, through reducing consumption at the consumer end and reducing […]
Demand Response set to be a ‘Multi-Billion Market by 2016′
Demand response (DR) continues to evolve as the smart grid’s “killer application”, leveraging technology infrastructure to deliver measurable value to utilities, grid operators, and customers alike. The demand response market encompasses hardware, software, and services, but it is the services sector that is defining the future direction of the business, both within the United States […]
Why Negawatts & Distributed Energy Will Drive The Smart Building to Smart Grid Interface Business
At the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in London last week ministers from 23 economies – representing 90% of global renewables and efficiency investment, heard from the International Energy Agency that under current policies, carbon dioxide emissions will nearly double by 2050. “This would likely boost global temperatures by at least 6 degrees Celsius,” IEA deputy […]
The Smart Buildings / Smart Grid Interface Business
One of the important findings of Memoori’s annual report The Smart Grid Business in 2011-2016 showed that some 40% of the worlds annual spend on Electrical Transmission and Distribution Equipment goes to Industrial and Commercial markets. Whilst the main body of the industry preoccupies itself with the electrical utility market the traditional manufacturers that span […]
White Paper: How will the Smart Grid Business Develop in the Next 5 Years?
Despite the background of a troubled world economy the pure Smart Grid business has grown from a world market value in 2010 of $16 billion to approximately $22 billion in 2011. To keep on track to achieve full penetration by the year 2030 in order to meet CO2 targets Memoori estimates that it will need […]
White Paper: Investment Opportunities in the Smart Grid Supply Industry
The Smart Grid Industry is very fragmented but our recent research shows that in the space of 5 years M&A have grown from $134 million in 2007 to $10.6 billion in 2011. Both the growth and now scale indicate the supply side is gearing up to meet the requirements for new technology and forecast demand […]
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