Utilities are accumulating an abundance of data from smart grids, but most are failing to process it. A sensible solution is to make data publicly available so that entrepreneurs can put it to good use.

Oracle conducted a survey on how well U.S. utilities are leveraging smart grid data and published its results this week. This is a marketing effort in support of its business intelligence solutions, but the findings were nevertheless interesting.

via Smart grid data should be free | SmartPlanet.

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