In today's troubled climate, the utilities sector is in the midst of unprecedented transformation. Several factors are driving fundamental change: liberalization and increased competition, strategic mergers and acquisitions, regulatory pressure around climate change, systems reliability, convergence, electricity and renewable concerns.
As the Electric Distribution industry enters the Smart Grid era, it is deploying a variety of new technologies (including distributed energy resources) and communications infrastructure to enhance the performance of the distribution grid, improve customer satisfaction and reduce the carbon foot- print.
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