Gridget: IBM to prime pump for smart-grid start-ups

Gridget > IBM to prime pump for smart-grid start-ups

[Green Tech] Next up is a concerted smart-grid effort. The computing giant is preparing a technical "framework" to accelerate new technology integration into the creaky electricity distribution grid, said Drew Clark, director of strategy for IBM's .

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[Solar Feeds - All Solar News 24/7] IBM to prime pump for smart-grid start-ups (IBM): "The biggest challenge of all this is scale," Clark said. "If we can find breakthrough technology that enables us to bridge the gap between start-up technologies and utility scale on an industrialized basis where we can rapidly move technologies into place, then that's the killer application."

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