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leader's corner

Tommy Mayne

ISGT conferences
a focus on practical smart grid solutions

T

The 2017 InTegraTed SmarT
grid Technologies (ISgT) Conference
in Washington, d.C., marked the ninth
ISgT event held in north america. Since
2010, ISgT has become the premier con-
ference focusing on practical smart grid
solutions for the electric utility industry.
The conference has also grown from its
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Date of publication: 18 April 2018

original roots in the United States to a
global presence with 25 ISgT confer-
ences held in countries across the world
through the end of 2017 (Figure 1).
Why ISgT? I recall the first time I
heard the term "smart grid." my first
thought was that, in over 40 years in
the utility industry, I never recalled a
"dumb grid" being designed. But with
improvements in communication and
computer technology, the opportunity

to resolve the limitations and costs of
the electrical grid has become apparent
and allows smarter grids to be developed.
Technological limitations on metering no
longer force peak power prices to be aver-
aged out and passed on to all consumers
equally. In parallel, the use of substantial
amounts of renewable energy has changed
the characteristics of the electrical system.
With highly variable sources of renew-
ables, the need for more sophisticated

Gothenburg, Sweden

Manchester, UK

Lyngby, Denmark
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Minneapolis, MN

Anaheim, CA

Berlin, Germany
Gaithersburg, MD

Bosnia-Herzegovina
Tianjin, China

Torino, Italy
Istanbul, Turkey

Washington, D.C.

Bangalore, India
Bangkok, Thailand

Medellin, Colombia
Singapore

Quito, Ecuador

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sao Paulo, Brazil
MAP LEGEND
ISGT North America
ISGT Asia

Melbourne, Australia

Auckland, New Zealand

Montevideo, Uruguay

ISGT Europe
ISGT Latin America

figure 1. The ISGT Conferences have a global presence.
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