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Electric Grid Powering Broadband

Mar 10

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Talking about and understanding needs of utilities will be critical in order for telecom companies to be able to serve utilities in developing the so-called smart-grid. In this video interview, Randy Young, the Minnesota Telecom Alliance president, suggests that it is incumbent on telephone companies and their associations to proactively open discussions with electric utilities and make the case that it is more efficient for utilities to collaborate with telecom providers.

In this interview, he also gives ideas on what we will see concerning the future of telecom, particularly as it relates to rural telcos and broadband. He also stresses the challenges of continuing the important efforts of the MTA in the face of industry consolidation. 

Program sponsored by MTA Associate Members and HEM Productions

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The Connected Home – Remote Healthcare & Smart Grid

Mar 8

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In this ViodiTV at MTA interview. Steve Klein of Allied Telesis, discusses emerging broadband applications around telemedicine and remote healthcare and the value they can provide to rural households and communities.  He points out how the telco's broadband network can power smart grid opportunities.  ViodiTV at the MTA 2010 annual convention was sponsored by the MTA Associate Members and HEM productions.

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Keeping Customers by Selling Less

Feb 3

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The Smart Grid was the basis of a Parks Associates conference last week in Austin. Unfortunately, ViodiTV was not at that conference, but we did get a preview of some of the challenges and opportunities that suppliers of electricity face. In this interview, filmed at the 2010 CES, Chris Deutschen of Direct Energy explains the rather counter-intuitive notion of how, by helping their customers save money through efficiency, his company can actually be more profitable (think churn reduction).  

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The Austin Electrical Grid – A Smart Enterprise

Dec 7

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The so-called smart grid is more than just putting out smart meters in the network. Andres Carvallo talks about the challenges Austin Energy has faced as they evolved their electrical grid into an enterprise network that today controls over 500,000 devices. Carvallo explains how these devices collectively generate, on an annual basis, hundreds of terabytes of data.

The challenges don’t end with data management, however, as the idea of user-generated electricity (e.g. solar panel on houses that feed into the grid) requires entirely new ways of billing.  This is because the relationship between consumer and energy distributor becomes more of a bi-directional relationship, as opposed to the one-way nature of the legacy grid. 

Note: This episode was sponsored by and filmed at the Parks Associates-produced 2009 Connections Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Parks Associates is planning a Smart Energy Summit in conjunction with Austin Energy to be held January 25 to 27, 2010 in Austin, Texas. 

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