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Kathleen Davis
by Kathleen Davis

CIGRE and the Smart Grid

I spent last week in Paris for the CIGRE exposition at a conference center just down the street from the famously triumphant Arc de Triomphe. But, while Napoleon’s victories may still be celebrated in the stone arch of the Arc, I was surprised that...

Vegetation Management as Vegetation Melancholy

Yesterday, I wept over my Japanese maple---ok, not literally. But, it’s a nice opening image, isn’t it? A girl in all black crying over a sweeping, pale tree. Very gothic.Anyway, here’s the true story: I was outside in the heat doing some yard work and...

Do Mere Meters Define the Smart Grid Future?

This week, research company Berg Insight predicted that installed smart meters will shoot past the 300-million mark worldwide by 2015. That’s a lot of meters. A whole lot. But, are we circling, here? Smart meters may be the heart of the smart grid, but...