Smart Grid Policy Summit: Smart Grids are Ground Zero, Official Says
(Washington, DC) The utility industry is poised at the intersection of energy and broadband as it builds smart grids, a key Administration technology official said today here at UTC's Smart Grid Policy...
View ArticleSmart Grid Policy Summit: Maintaining Privacy, Security is Daunting
(Washington, DC) As smart grid technologies take hold, two key technical challenges, maintaining consumer privacy and network security, will require constant diligence by utilities, experts told...
View ArticleConsumer Data Privacy Bill Expected to be Introduced Today
At the annual conference of the American Business Media yesterday, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) outlined the provisions of a data privacy bill he expects to release today. The bill would provide consumers...
View ArticleConsumer Privacy, Data Access Key to Consumer Smart Grid Acceptance
(Washington, DC) Consumer privacy and access to consumption data are two key components to ensuring continued consumer support for smart grid deployments, participants said today during the Department...
View ArticleBenefits of Access to Consumption Data Must Be Balanced Against Costs –...
Balancing benefits of consumer access to their own consumption data with the costs anticipated by the various approaches was stressed by UTC comments filed in DOE’s request for information on data...
View ArticleState Regulators Support Customer Data Privacy
Ensuring consumer privacy and ability to control access to their energy usage information to be given highest priority, declares recent resolution by the National Association of Regulatory Utility...
View ArticleFCC Working on Cybersecurity Roadmap for Communications Networks; Seeks...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) seeks public comment on the creation of a Cybersecurity Roadmap, as recommended by the National Broadband...
View ArticleWhy do we keep asking "What are smart grids?"
All too often, I hear smart grid discussions started by someone suggesting that we really ought to come up with a definition for smart grids. Frankly, that makes me wonder how we ended up with so many...
View ArticleDOE General Counsel: Data Access and Privacy are Clear, No Easy Consensus on...
(Washington, DC) The Department of Energy’s (DOE) examinations of two big smart grid-related issues, consumer data access and privacy and utility communications needs, are now complete, DOE General...
View ArticleProspects for Cyber Legislation Dimmed by Privacy Concerns
A letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV), cosigned by 30 privacy and civil liberties advocacy groups, has raised serious concerns about the lack of privacy protections in regard to personally...
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