Let's Build a Global Power Grid" Outstanding proposal from Clark Gellings, a Fellow at the Electric Power Research Institute and an IEEE Life Fellow. This is his second article for IEEE Spectrum. His first, published in 1981, introduced the idea of demand-side management—a now common smart-grid
practice that allows electricity customers to manage their own usage.
“People thought it was heretical, but the idea eventually took hold,”
he says. “I hope that happens with this, too.”
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