Green Tech Media’s The Networked Grid Conference Nov 4, San Francisco

Panel on Real World Smart Grid Deployments and Policies 2010-2020

"We ultimately believe that technology will solve our problems".
~ Thomas Bialek, Chief Engineer - Smart Grid, SDG&E 

"The future is bright—but just be careful of oncoming trains."
~ Erfan Ibrahim, EPRI Intelligrid

"You can’t say you are clean tech, and then give money to companies that are really energy hoggers (like always on set top/cable boxes)."
~ Erfan Ibrahim, EPRI Intelligrid

"We can’t just take the IP protocol and slap it onto the smart grid."
~ Erfan Ibrahim, EPRI Intelligrid

"There will be kind of a half-life to interest in the smart grid, so strike now."
~ Kevin Dasso, Senior Director, Strategy & Regulation, PG&E

"We have a very bizarre culture—we spend a lot of money to impress people.  Look at home energy management from that perspective..(success may be based on how much) you can impress your neightbors, like the Apple products we see today…"
~ Erfan Ibrahim, EPRI Intelligrid

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