am publishing licensed by ingr towers image transmission graphic stock, e licensed by foreground imag How to Build a Robust, Technology-Agnostic Regulatory Model for Tomorrow's Electrical Grid september/october 2016 describes a high-level roadmap for developing tomorrow's electric grid. New Players and Business Models The electric power landscape has experienced a boom in diversity in the last decade as new technologies become increasingly viable and consumers become aware of and then seek out new ways of interacting with the electric grid. in general, new entrant companies have been the vanguard of this transformation, with few examples of traditional electric utilities leading the way (as we will discuss in a later section). ieee power & energy magazine 67