SmartGridNews.com The insider's guide to the modernization and automation of electric power
Jesse Berst By Jesse Berst Aug 7, 2005 - 10:00:00 AM
Jesse Berst is the founder and Chairman of the Smart Cities Council, a coalition of organizations that seeks to accelerate the move to smart cities with better livability, workability and sustainability.
Jesse came to the smart city sector from the smart grid where he was one of the pioneering thought leaders and the chief analyst of SmartGridNews.com, the Internet’s oldest, largest and highest-ranked smart grid site.
The Smart Cities Council and Smart Grid News are operated by Global Smart Energy (GSE), which also provides strategic consulting to corporations, startups and investment firms looking to target their smart grid activities. Current and past clients include Avista Utilities, BAE Systems, Edison Electric Institute, Global Environment Fund, the GridWise Alliance, Lockheed Martin, the Province of British Columbia, Prize Capital, Schneider Electric, Telcordia, the U.S. Department of Energy, and many others.
Jesse devotes a portion of his time to efforts to grow the industry. He was a co-founder of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative, a nonprofit that unites utilities, vendors, and consumer advocates with the goal of accelerating a consumer-friendly smart grid. He serves on the Advisory Council for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which conducts some of the nation’s most advanced grid research. He also sits on the advisory boards of Voyager Capital, a leading West Coast venture capital firm, Calico Energy, which provides unified operations centers to utilities, GridGlo, which has a customer insights engine for utilities, and 1Energy, which produces cutting-edge energy storage systems. Subscribe to our FREE eMail News Alert!
Smart Grid Newsletter (SGN) is the insider's guide to the Smart Grid revolution. It consists of a FREE bi-monthly email summary, along with a companion Web site that contains the full stories and other helpful materials. Benefits of subscribing: SGN is the only central source for all of the news, trends, research and marketplace information relevant to grid automation. In it, you will read about cutting edge technologies; successful pioneers and how they got ahead; regulatory changes that could unleash new markets; the latest research; and new opportunities for sales of grid-related products and services. © Copyright 2009 SmartGridNews.com |