Thursday, October 20, 2016
Janet Wood, Editor, New Power
The FT’s recent conference on digital energy had the same split that often arises when we talk about digital. Some people speak about doing very much the same things as ever – surveying power lines, reading meters – but doing them remotely, and doing them better, cheaper, faster. From a technical point of view that’s fairly unproblematic. And in fact you often hear that what seems like a technological breakthrough in one industry – remote condition monitoring, say, or time of use tariffs – is already in regular use in another.
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