We have voiced to utilities that implementation and/or replacement of energy devices onto residential, commercial and industrial buildings and households should seek to have the customer expecting month-by-month a reduction in energy consumption and billing.

We advocate a best-practice whereby:

Utility companies partner with companies performing energy facility assessments and / or Energy Consumers are provided federal, state or local grants to engage in third-party providers of renewable products/services. The energy audit consists of reviewing the building shell, lighting, air conditioning, heating and other equipment.

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Tags: GRC, Utilities, Regulatory, Energy, Smart Meter, Asset Management, Continuous Control Monitoring

Participating and reviewing smart meter / smart grid programs have allowed us to evangelize the need for utilities to established a continuous near real-time enterprise-wide platform. The economics of today is forcing executives to overcome the regulatory issues and utilities standards of upgrading the current grid to resolve:

Limited energy storage Central power generation One=way binary demand response Limited real-time data Reactive outage management systems

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Tags: Smart Grid, Smart Meter, Regulatory, Energy, Utilities, Continuous Control Monitoring, Asset Management, NIST 800-53, AMI, ISO 27002, NERC-CIP, PCI 2.0

Using NISTIR 7628 and NISTIR 7756

Tags: Energy, CCM, Continuous Control Monitoring, real-time, IT GRC, eGRC, GRC, risk assessment, NISTIR 7628, NISTIR 7756, Smart Grid