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.

Smart Energy Distribution Management Systems

HP’s 2005 point of view on Smart Energy Distribution Management Systems details how HP and Capgemini collaborate to bring powerful, intelligent solutions for the next-generation distribution utility.
Smart energy distribution management systems play a crucial role in supporting the needs of the next-generation utility. Encompassing a wide range of advanced capabilities—including advanced meter infrastructure (AMI), demand [...]

Smart Metering: “Getting all the value from your smart metering investment.”

Capgemini’s 2006 point of view on Smart Metering: Getting all of the value from your smart metering investment. Our experience with leading utility companies suggests it could be, if used strategically. Smart metering is on the point of becoming very big news in Europe and North America. It is a trend that has been anticipated [...]

CEATI Distribution Utility Technology Roadmap 2025 report

The CEATI Distribution Utility Technology Roadmap 2025 report, The fourth report (5057-B “Common Infrastructure”) was completed in this project in October of 2007. The series now totals more than 800 pages of material, 200 technologies and more than a dozen communications mediums. More than 100 utilties have been involved in this project over the last [...]

Solutions Brief: What Happens When A Car Hits a Pole?

The Smart Energy Alliance also published "What Happens When A Car Hits a Pole?" solution brief at DistribuTech 2006 to demonstrate the future of deploying utility solutions that improve the integration of key emerging utility technologies by using an architecture roadmap focused on modularity and flexibility.

SEA Backgrounder

For the Smart Energy Alliance launch at DistribuTech 2006, the SEA Backgrounder was created to explain how the Smart Energy Alliance™ brings comprehensive, coordinated expertise to key utility challenges. The result? Technology solutions that deliver transforming value while mitigating risk and problems.