[The energy industry’s] options cover a full spectrum that includes the utilities providing the “last mile” access to customers for both generic Internet access required for empowering the users as well as supporting the necessary utility applications. In one scenario the energy utilities provide high-speed NII access to both residences and industry over utility-owned infrastructure in order to obtain the level of reliability they need as well as providing the infrastructure necessary to support real-time energy supply and consumption management.
Predictor: Aiken, Robert J.
Prediction, in context:In a research presentation titled “Energy Utilities in the Internet and NII: Users or Providers?,” presented at the Internet Society’s INET ’95 June 27-30 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Robert J. Aiken, John S. Cavallini and Mary Ann Scott of the U.S. Department of Energy say: ”In its bid to respond to evolving business requirements, the energy utility industry is exploring new ways to provide cost-effective quality energy to its constituency while concurrently reducing the need for additional generation plants, consumption of non-renewable fuel resources, and generation of emissions. Their options cover a full spectrum that includes the utilities providing the ‘last mile’ access to customers for both generic Internet access required for empowering the users as well as supporting the necessary utility applications. In one scenario the energy utilities provide high-speed NII [National Information Infrastructure] access to both residences and industry over utility-owned infrastructure in order to obtain the level of reliability they need as well as providing the infrastructure necessary to support real-time energy supply and consumption management. In a second scenario, the energy utilities make use of a combination of their own infrastructure and that of existing service providers, such as cable and telecommunications companies to satisfy the same set of requirements. Either scenario can greatly increase the number of active nodes on the National Information Infrastructure and the Global Information Infrastructure, and therefore have a large impact on the network.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Service Providers
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: Energy Utilities in the Internet and NII: Users or Providers?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/221/html/paper.html
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