The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken an active and financial role in plans for both the smart grid and broadband development, and it’s now encouraging the two industries to use one another. Speaking Thursday to attendees of the Cleantech Investor Summit, FCC energy and environmental director Nick Sinai said that the FCC will make specific recommendations on how to bring broadband to the smart grid through the National Broadband plan due to Congress in March.
via FCC encourages cooperation between broadband, smart grid.
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January 28, 2010
Here are some additional thoughts on the value of broadband and smart grid project teams coming together to give communities a bigger bang for the bucks being spent – http://bit.ly/1A6cIj. There are also some tips on how to unite these two efforts.