Thought Leadership

For the past five years, Smart Energy Alliance member companies have been working with utilities and other stakeholders to write the next chapter of the utility T&D industry to take them from “smart energy” roadmap to reality. Here are some recent examples from the Smart Energy Alliance collateral files as well as individual company research and analysis.

Strategic Metering

Read: Oracle White Paper
Utilities realize an appropriate return on an Advanced Metering investment only when they view it from the top down—examining the potential benefits to all departments and all classes of customer.

Smart Metering for Water Utilities

An Oracle Utilities White Paper. This paper explores the use of consumption metering to provide water utilities and their customers with new information and conservation techniques.

Smart Metering for Electric and Gas Companies

An Oracle Utilities Whitepaper  – This paper explores the use of new approaches to consumption metering that provide utilities and customers with information generally unavailable today.

Demand Response: a decisive breakthrough for Europe

Capgemini, in collaboration with Vaasaett and Enerdata, share views on how Europe could save Gigawatts, Billions of Euros and Millions of tons of CO2. 
www.capgemini.com/resources/thought_leadership/by_industry/energy/

Cleantech – Is it feasible to bridge the gap of Europe’s renewable ambitions?

Download this Capgemini point of view to learn more about:

the feasibility of a mass investment into renewable technologies with bottlenecks already visible in several parts of the value chain.
how support mechanisms differ greatly between countries and technologies, causing confusion for private investors and utilities interested in this market.

With a greater understanding of these variables, we [...]

North American Platts/Capgemini Utilities Executive Study

Top North American Utilities executives were surveyed by Platts and Capgemini.  With concerns about the environment, infrastructure, workforce management and increasing regulation denying many of them a peaceful night’s rest, top North American energy industry executives are increasingly exploring technology as a remedy for their sleeplessness, a recent study by Platts and Capgemini finds.   Completed in late [...]