Just look down a listing of Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) suppliers and you will find a mixture of some of the world’s leading ICT organisations and small new start specialist software companies fighting hard to get established in this burgeoning market. The 2 major prongs of the business lie in making Smart Buildings much smarter and the Smart Grid fully ADR right across the transmission and distribution network by providing a real time analysis of supply and demand. These 2 markets alone have the potential to spend upwards of $225 billion by 2030 with Smart Buildings looking the more attractive and robust business. Installing Smart Grid is highly dependent upon changes to the regulatory control procedures and the utility companies finding the $2 trillion investment needed to deliver a fully operational Smart Grid around the world. In the meantime the utilities are coming under increasing pressure to reduce CO2 emissions and are being forced to […]