Dive Summary:
- NRECA’s Cooperative Research Network will create a new guide for electric co-ops to use when assessing telecom needs related to the smart grid.
- “Your new telecom system has to support technology that you have not installed yet—maybe it hasn’t even been invented yet," Maurice Martin, a CRN project manager, said in a report on ECT.coop.
- Sources for the guide will include CRN member-advisers, technology vendors, and representatives from co-ops involved in Department of Energy smart grid projects.
From the article:
No doubt about it. Electric co-ops deploying smart grid systems likely will have to retool their communications networks to handle larger volumes of data flowing back and forth across the grid.
To help co-ops with telecom build outs and upgrades, NRECA’s Cooperative Research Network is about to start work on a new guide “to give co-ops help assessing their own telecom needs and to evaluate available telecom technology that might meet those needs,” said Maurice Martin, a CRN project manager. ...
