Disruption Becomes Evolution - Creating the Value Based Utility - Smart Grid Educational Webinar
In this presentation Andres provides highlights of CMG's upcoming white paper titled "Disruption Becomes Evolution: Creating the Value-Based Utility” to facilitate a dialogue within the Smart Grid Educational Series community on this critical topic and solicit diverse opinions and identify areas of consensus. This white paper has been co-authored by Andres and the team of senior consultants at CMG. It is an industry must read presenting the journey, impacts and solution recommendations on how generation, grid operations, wholesale and retail energy sales are being transformed by innovation and competition bringing the utilities to a critical fork in the road choice on how to create better customer experiences, products, and services driven by multiple drivers. These include new business models, cutting edge technology based central generation, distributed solar and CHP, demand response, microgrids, energy storage, electric vehicles, security, advanced wholesale markets, and new retail markets. The CMG experts have deep professional experience and a global view on the trends and opportunities that utilities and the market should create and/or accelerate towards a truly plentiful and sustainable energy future. Presenter(s): Andres Carvallo, CEO & Founder of CMG Consulting LLC (CMG) Presenter Bio: Andres Carvallo, CEO & founder of CMG is an award winning engineer, speaker, author, and executive. Andres is globally recognized by the IEEE as one of the early developers of the smart grid concept and technology. Andres defined the term Smart Grid on March 5, 2004. Andres championed Austin Energy’s industry leading smart grid program design and implementation from 2003 – 2010 and he architected the Pecan Street Project in 2009. Andres co-authored the best selling book “The Advanced Smart Grid”, has received 34 industry awards since 2005, and is a popular speaker and guest lecturer. About CMG: CMG is a strategy consulting and advisory firm focus on enabling Smarter Cities, Utilities, Enterprises, Vendors, and Start-Ups.Its services include strategy, assessment, design, architecture, road map, business model, go-to-market plan, IT/OT, funding and M&A. Its technology expertise encompasses smart grid, micro grids, smart meters, smart devices, Internet of Things, smart networks, smart buildings, smart homes, distributed generation (e.g. CHP, solar), security, energy storage, electric vehicles, energy management systems, cloud, big data, and mobile. The results of CMG's involvement are proven to Increase Value, Reduce Risk, Accelerate Adoption and Delight Customers. Presentation documents are available at Penn State's Smart Grid Educational Webinar Series Archive at https://smartenergyacademy.psu.edu/gr.... You can also browse the rest of the archives there, or by using the Smart Grid Educational Webinar Series playlist on YouTube. Originally delivered on May 29, 2014. Dr. Erfan Ibrahim, Founder & CEO of The Bit Bazaar LLC is offering these monthly seminars as a public service to bridge the knowledge gap in the industry and inspire a new generation of students, researchers, engineers, and policy experts to understand the technical, policy and business requirements to enable Smart Grids and develop the skill set to design, build and manage the infrastructure in a commercially viable way. The Smart Grid Educational series seminars are bringing world-class experts in the field to educate the industry on critical issues and create a forum for interaction to solve complex problems in this field. These forums also allow national labs and academia to showcase their research work to the nation and internationally to attract new funding, new faculty, new students and new ideas for curriculum development. It is also promoting cutting edge technologies from vendors, world class experts, and sound engineering, business process and policy principles leading to economic growth, job creation, and social benefit. You can view more webinars at Penn State's Smart Grid Educational Webinar Series Archive at https://smartenergyacademy.psu.edu/gr... or by using the Smart Grid Educational Webinar Series playlist on YouTube.
