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. We’ve cautioned before that we may be building the grid @$$ backwards, and that seems to be what Silver Spring Networks executive Eric Dresselhuys is getting at when he suggests the UK's emphasis on smart meter deployment is flawed. Putting in a bunch of smart meters and not upgrading the grid to handle them and make the system work doesn't make a lot of sense. In comments to BusinessGreen, Dresselhuys warned that if the country's smart meter mandate is not sufficient in scope "the UK could spend a fantastic amount of money building a system that is obsolete as soon as it is built." It's an approach many American utilities have taken as well, but from what we've seen, every utility that started with a metering project is back working on distribution automation. Maybe the Brits could learn something from us.
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