Engaging Consumers in the Smart Grid Marketplace

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One of the biggest frontiers in electrical engineering today is the development and implementation of smart grid technology. Fueled by the global demand for greener technologies and alternative fuels, environmentally-friendly smart grid technology has the ability to stimulate stagnated economies and change the way power is delivered to electricity consumers around the world. This course covers the new power industry reality, including consumers, third parties, and future markets.

What you will learn:

  • Summarize consumer trends in the utility industry
  • Explain consumer segments and their perspective
  • Describe smart grid technology adoption by the consumer segment

This course is part of the following course program:

Modernizing the Smart Grid

Courses included in this program:

Who should attend: Electrical engineer, software, Security engineer, Design engineer, Network engineer, AI/ML engineer, Computer engineer

Instructor

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John McDonald

John McDonald is the Smart Grid Business Development Leader for GE Power's Grid Solutions business. John brings his 44 years of full-time work experience in electric power system automation to this course. John is a Life Fellow of IEEE, which he joined in 1971 as an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at Purdue University. John was the IEEE Power & Energy Society President in 2006-2007, and has written 100 articles and papers, and co-authored five books.

Publication Year: 2019

ISBN: 978-1-5386-8570-9


Engaging Consumers in the Smart Grid Marketplace
  • Course Provider: Educational Activities
  • Course Number: EDP547
  • Duration (Hours): 1
  • Credits: 0.1 CEU/ 1 PDH