A Scalable Approach to Smart-Grid Technology or A Smarter Smart Grid
Description
A five-page white paper from the University of Vermont College of Engineering that proposes an Internet-like, decentralized, bottom-up design for the Smart Grid. The authors view top-down architectures as excessively costly and dangerous to customer privacy. For a general audience.
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