Abstract: | This report serves to provide clarification of what the smart grid is, from end-to-end, and where it’s going as the infrastructure is built out and the applications are ultimately defined and delivered. It does so by providing a graphical taxonomy of the market; explaining the market drivers, benefits and challenges; walking through the many market segments and technologies; laying out the current and future applications; looking at some of North America’s largest deployments to date; detailing venture capital investment in the space from 2005 through 2009; and identifying the major vendors, large and small, along with their products and services, throughout the Smart Grid supply chain.
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