April 11, 2007 — IBM and CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric LLC today unveiled plans to create a coalition of energy firms that would use Web 2.0 tools to share information about major projects.
IBM said that it hopes the Intelligent Utility Network (IUN) coalition effort will help boost the adoption of grid computing within the energy sector.
IBM is working with CenterPoint on a $750 million, five-year project to automate its entire operation. The effort includes construction of an IUN, an information architecture that allows for the automated real-time monitoring of assets like meters, power lines and customer usage to improve service and reliability, CenterPoint officials said.
Very cool, it will be interesting to see where this leads, any encouragement of the grid platform has to be a good thing, to show how the grid technologies can be used within the energy sector could bring real benefits to the energy sector.
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