Boppy

My dear friend is going away from Denver to Bentonville Arkansas, with her husband and two young kids. I won't be able to see them very often any more because Walmart is not likely to hire consultants.

Consultants and emerging players are a major force behind Smart Grid - the field is exploding with new solutions, new ideas, technology, challenges that no one has dealt with before end to end. Consultants and start up companies such as Control 4, Grid Point, Silversprings, etc are propellers behind the change and are critical to provide various components of the solution. It is a fast changing environment where inter-operatability doesn't exist due to the lack of the standards, but innovation is created and cultivated exactly such an environment where competing technologies and solutions will find the appropriate places in the value chain to survive and thrive.