European group details retailer smart-grid opportunities
In deregulated energy markets, customers and their main contact point — energy retailers — have a unique opportunity, technologically as well as economically, to advance the efficient development of the smart grid throughout Europe’s competitive energy markets.
A new whitepaper from the European Technology Platform for the Electricity Networks of the Future’s Working Group Demand and Metering details the various aspects of the retailers’ position and the part retailers can effectively play in the central functionalities enabled by the smart grid — through cooperation with consumers and grid managers (DSO), providing the passage to the wholesale market.
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