The energy industry is undergoing a large-scale transformation that will fundamentally reinvent the grid in the next decade. The good news is that the smart grid will not only leverage the existing internet infrastructure, but it can also benefit from the technology and best practices developed for the internet to build tomorrow’s electrons super highways. Smart grids already rely on the internet infrastructure for their control backplane, whether it’s leveraging wireless networks or using fiber optics.

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