Think smart grid. Then think iPhone app.
That’s the concept Duke Energy Chief Technology Officer David Mohler invokes when he discusses the opportunity ahead for smart grid companies.
Open up the electrical wire to third party development, says Duke's David Mohler
Duke, the North Carolina utility, doesn’t see itself developing products for the consumer-facing end of the smart grid, which energy pundits expect will bring intelligence and interactivity to electricity distribution.
Instead the innovation should be left to third party companies better able to experiment with consumer demand. “Let a thousand flowers bloom,” Mohler said Tuesday at the Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovations conference. “That’s not our core competency.”
To enable the innovation, Mohler advocates “opening up the wire” to development and consumer choice in much the same way Apple permits developers to write apps for its iPhone.
This openness should create a rush of experimentation – and a radically different way of viewing energy management and consumption.
“I don’t think we even know what possibilities are,” he said. “It’s going to be like when the Internet was rolled out.”
After all, who would have predicted the iPhone?
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