Imagine a national "energy web"Presented By: Francie FinnSouthern California Regional ManagerKn Grid 1411 W. Balboa Boulevard Newport Beach, CA 92661(415) 516-6278kngrid.com

This energy web, in concept, would be architected and deployed in a similar way to DARPA, to build a robust and resilient data exchange infrastructure, based on a set of open (TCP/IP) standards.

An energy web that provides an intelligent, collaborative network that links energy producers/sources, with operators and utilities, and ultimately with energy consumers both big and small

A secure means of knowing where and how much energy is needed at all times. An Energy Web would require not only the emergence of standard interfaces, but also the physical infrastructure to support a way of distributing not only power, but information, requiring a broad range of intelligent devices.

This energy web would be a robust, programmable platform that would encourage and catalyze innovation around the idea that we need thousands of entrepreneurs building "apps", applications and services that address these enormous but critically important challenges of moving to renewable energy sources quickly, intelligently and cost-effectively.

Apps built for this popular mobile device to bear on key areas like demand response, modeling & simulation, energy efficiency & conservation, usage monitoring, real-time pricing, etc.

Together as a community we need to band together to drive interest and investment into such a project, beginning with some top-down support to set architectures and standards that will help us get started down this path.