Automate and optimize energy distribution to improve reliability, increase efficiency and reduce waste Optimizing the grid’s distribution system is THE discussion of 2011 and with it comes enormous opportunity. Smart Grid Update’s inaugural Distribution Automation Conference zones in on the key distribution issues facing utilities right now - deciding which project (s) to undertake, discovering how to deploy them and ensuring a pos...

In 2009, President Obama signed several executive orders tasking the government to reduce energy consumption and fossil fuel useage. As the nations single largest user of energy, the government is trying to lead by example. However, a large percentage of the energy used by the government is in the 500,000 buildings that they own. In FY2008, the government spent more than $7 billion of their $24.5 billion energy bill on facilities alone. This m...