Smart Energy Resources

Here are some usful background links to smart energy resources.

Download the latest Smart Energy presentations from the ZigBee Alliance:

'Close up: Rapid ZigBee Adoption by Utilities' click here (5mb)

'Becoming the Wireless Standard for Tomorrow's Smart Grid (6mb)

VaasaETT Global Energy Think-Tank

VaasaETT's Global Energy Think-Tank provides collaborative solutions to the energy and utilities industry. Through a network of thousands of high and medium level executives, officials, researchers, consultants and other experts that we mostly know and trust personally, the Global Energy Think Tank creates partnerships and consortiums for research, advice, solutions, and even lobbying. Whatever you need to know, we probably know someone, somewhere who has the answer.

VaasaETT is a highly innovative research and advisory agency, providing world leading customer psychometrics and related strategies through research and collaboration with the Global Energy Think Tank®. Unrivaled expertise of utility customer psychology and behaviour is applied to core focus areas including Customer Value, Market Efficiency and Demand Response within liberalized and smart metering environments. VaasaETT is for instance arguably the world's leading collector and analyst of global customer switching, churn, loyalty and elasticity trends in competitive (liberalized / deregulated) retail electricity and gas markets.

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www.vaasaett.com 

Fells Associates

“A Pragmatic Energy Policy for the UK”

Fells Associates is a network of independent consultants specialising in energy policy  and  regulatory development analysis, communications, information, advice on energy and related environmental policy, business/project dynamic modeling and hazard/risk analysis.

Prof Ian Fells, internationally acclaimed energy expert, explains how unrealistic "green" aspirations and wishful thinking about unachievable quantities of offshore wind generation has led to under-investment in energy base load infrastructure to replace the loss of one third of generating capacity over the next decade which the UK faces.
"The report discloses a staggering lack of understanding of the technical and engineering reality of what can be built within a short time scale.

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