GTM Research and MSGS Release North American Smart Grid Deployment Survey 2011

Survey results identify and help understand the trends in the smart grid industry at the municipal level
By: Spencer Bisgaard
 
Aug. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- Greenville, S.C.- GTM Research, the market research arm of Greentech Media, surveyed over eighty-five municipal utilities in cooperation with Municipal Smart Grid Summit (MSGS) and has published the North American Municipal Smart Grid Deployment Survey 2012. The extensive survey covers current and future smart grid deployment plans as well as issues and challenges municipal executives face.  

The data collected from the survey shows that 67% of the municipals are in the planning or investigatory stages of smart grid deployment and 28% of the municipals in attendance have either moved forward with large scale deployments or have a formal strategy in place to begin deployment.  

Bill Booth, General Manager of MSGS said, “MSGS is specifically designed to have the municipality’s best interest in mind which provided us the ideal platform to partner with GTM Research to release the North American Municipal Smart Grid Deployment Survey 2011. The survey results allow our participating vendors to better understand how business decisions are reached at the municipal level compared to the public utility sector.”  Booth goes on to say, “Greentech Media and their leading analysts acted as a catalyst leading both the municipal executives and technology vendors towards intelligent and progressive dialogue.”

"The information gathered through the MSGS survey aids our analysts in continuing to identify and understand the trends within the smart grid industry," said Rick Thompson, President and Co-Found of Greentech Media. "The unique and intimate format that MSGS employs allows us to communicate with the municipal executives in a way unavailable at other events. We look forward to a continued partnership and additional understanding of the market through the MSGS participants."

The MSGS event has a unique format focused on business development through private boardroom meetings where 100+ Electric Utility Municipal Executives aggregate to discuss the latest technological advances and solutions in Smart Grid technology with participating summit vendors including: GE Digital Energy, Landis+Gyr, AT&T, Cooper Power Systems, S&C Electric, Trillant, West Monroe Partners and Grid2020 among others.

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Source:Spencer Bisgaard
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