About the Organizer

The Smart Grid Observer is an online information resource and weekly e-newsletter serving the global smart energy industry. SGO delivers the latest news and insight on a daily basis concerning key technology developments, deployment updates, standards work, business issues, and market trends driving the smart energy industry worldwide. The publication serves a global readership of executives and practitioners in the electric power generation, transmission, and distribution industry. For a free subscription, visit www.smartgridobserver.com

SGO hosts a number of conferences each year focused on issues of high relevance for the global clean energy industry. The goal is to foster information exchange and high-quality, one-to-one networking among industry professionals. Topics include EV charging, microgrids, cyber security, distributed energy resources, energy storage and more. For a list of upcoming and recent Forums, click here

Organizations That Have Participated in Recent SGO Events Include:

ABB Inc. Acealine, Inc. Aclara Agilent Technologies Alcatel-Lucent Alston & Bird LLP Alvarion American Electric Power Apex Networks Aquion Energy Argela Arup ASCA Bitumen Co. Ltd. BASF Battelle BC Hydro Bell Aliant Black & Veatch Boreas Group The Brattle Group BRIDGE Energy Group Broan-NuTone LLC BTC Broadband Burns & McDonnell Business Aspect California Public Utility Commission Cameron EDA Capgemini Cascadia Center Centerpoint Energy Chamonix Associates CIEMAT Cisco Systems CleanPoint ComEd CommScop, Inc. Comporium Con Edison of New York Constellation Energy Contineo Systems Cooper Power Systems CPS Energy CTDI CTIA CTS Customized Energy Solutions DATUMCOM Decision Zone Demansys Energy Dominion Power DST Systems DTEK DTE Energy Duke Energy Dun & Bradstreet Durus Networks E.ON U.S. Services Inc. EarthNetworks Eaton ecPlatforms Inc. EEI

Embedded Automation, Inc. Emerson Network Power ENBALA Power Networks Energate Energy Future EnerNex EnerNOC Enzen Global Ltd EPRI ETAP EVolution Communications Group FairPoint Communications Flextronics Florida Power & Light FreeWave Technologies, Inc. Fromerly D&E Communications Fujitsu Gartner GE Energy Georgia Institute of Technology Glendale Water & Power Five Point Partners Globitel Goldman Sachs Green Charge Networks Green Hills Software GridGlo GTRI Halton Hills Hydro Harvey Mud Huron Hydro One Hydro Ottawa Hypertek Inc. IAP Solutions IBM ICCAS iFactor Consulting Illinois Institute of Technology Indiana Fiber Network Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Indra Industrial Defender Intec Integral Analytics Intel Corporation INVEL NP Itron Ixia Jabil John Staurulakis, Inc. Johnson Controls KenJiva Energy Systems KGP Logistics KT LM Ericsson Lockheed Martin

Longbow Capital Lonst and Found Technologies Manifest Mind Manning & Napier Advisors Maravedis Marconi Pacific Midwest ISO MindTree Ltd. Moixa Energy NEMA Murata Electronics North America National Exchange Carrier Association National Instruments National Technical Systems Navigant Research Nebraska Information Network NECA Nortel NERC North American Energy Standards Board Northern Power Systems NPP INVEL NTCA NTS NTT Comware OATI Oncor Ontario Clean Water Agency Ontario Energy Board OPAL-RT OpenTV, Kudelski Group OPOWER Pacific Gas & Electric Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Palm Associates, inc. Panasonic Parks Associates PCS UtiliData PJM Plug Smart PowerGrid Communicattions PowerSense A/S Powertech Poyry Management Consulting Project Safety Puget Sound Energy Red Panda Rock Hill Municipal Utility Rocky Mountain Institute S&C Electric Company SAIC Samsung Sapient Corporation SatCom Global Schneider Electric Scottish and Southern Energy

ScreenSoft SDG&E SDLC Solutions Shell Siemens Silver Spring Networks SLP Consulting SMA America SmartCom Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative Smart Hydro Power SMUD Sonoma Innovation SourceOne Southern California Edison Southern Company Services Space-Time Insights SRA International Sterling Commerce STMicroelectronics Strathmore Energy Research CenterC SUBNET Solutions Inc. Supernova Energies Survalent Symantec TechTarget Telcordia Technologies Telintnet Research Telvent TESSCO There Corporation Ltd. To the Point Toronto Hydro Corp TRASYS Trilliant Trinity 360 Tripwire Tropos Networks Tyco UK Trade & Investment Ulticom University of Colorado University of Illinois University of Kentucky USTelecom Association U.S. Dept. of Energy Utilicom VaasaETT Global Energy Think Tank Verisae Verizon Wireless ViZn Energy Waterfall Westeva SAS Windstream Communications Wurldtech Xtensible Solutions Younicos AG Zenith Alternative Energy