Persistent climate-change concerns, volatile energy prices, and a growing awareness of technological advancement in energy are leading consumers across the globe to reconsider their role in the electric power value chain. Likewise, substantial increases in investment in utility infrastructure are likely, due to global demands for climate-change mitigation, the need to support aging networks and generation plants, and government stimulus plans for weakened economies. For energy and utility companies, this presents an historic opportunity to encourage new, mutually beneficial behaviors and to create business models to meet new consumer demands.
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