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IEEE Launches Smart Grid Web Portal, Content-rich Gateway Providing Intelligence, Education and News on Global Smart Grid

IEEE Smart Grid brings multidisciplinary expertise and coordination to global effort

19 January – IEEE, the world's largest technical professional association, today launched the IEEE Smart Grid Web Portal an integrated gateway to Smart Grid intelligence, education and news from IEEE and other expert sources. The Web Portal is designed for manufacturers, policymakers, educators, academics, governments, engineers, computer scientists, researchers and other stakeholders in the power and energy, information technology (IT), and communications industries.

The IEEE Smart Grid Web Portal is the first phase of IEEE Smart Grid, created to bring together IEEE's broad array of resources to provide expertise and guidance for those involved in Smart Grid worldwide.

"Contributions from across the global power and energy, communications and IT industries, as well as government and academia, are needed to ensure successful implementation of Smart Grid throughout the world. The IEEE Smart Grid Web Portal is designed to be an essential resource for anyone involved in Smart Grid, whatever their industry or technical discipline," said Wanda Reder, 2008-09 president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and chair of the IEEE Smart Grid Task Force. "With our unmatched diversity of expertise, richness of programs and proven standards-development capability, IEEE is the obvious global entity to take on a unifying role in the global Smart Grid arena."

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