BetterWorld Telecom President Matt Bauer presented at a workshop on Smart Grid, Broadband, and Climate Change at the FCC recently. The goal of the workshop was to identify potential impacts of a National Broadband Plan on energy, the environment, and transportation. The workshop panelists explored how the broadband and communications infrastructure can play a transformative role in meeting national energy, environmental, and transportation goals, including energy independence, greenhouse gas emissions reductions and clean energy generation.
Also on the panel were fellow fore-thinkers Chris Walker, Former Director for North America, The Climate Group; Sheryl Wilkerson, President of Willow LLC, **** Colin Buechler, SVP of Marketing, LifeSize Communications, Maura O’Neill, Senior Advisor for Energy and Climate and Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics, USDA and Skip Laitner, Economic Analysis Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficiency Economy (ACEEE).
Some of the topics touched on included:
- What are the pros and cons of the various types of networks?
- How much bandwidth is needed to support Smart Grid communications?
- What are the biggest obstacles to deploying Smart Grid equipment and to generating benefits from these deployments?
- How do you maximize adoption and utilization of Smart Grid equipment throughout the energy ecosystem, from generation to consumption?
You can check out the webcast for the event here. Altogether an inspiring example of government and business coming together to lay out the groundwork for a sustainable and smart future.
– The BetterWorld Team
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