Ben Boyd Our final GreenWays interview for 2011 is with two key executives from EnerNex, a dynamic and increasingly influential company nestled in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee that has risen from a modest engineering services firm to national prominence in a relatively short period since its founding in 2003. For readers that might not be that familiar with EnerNex, they have been very active in promoting the use of standards across the Smart Grid landscape from its very beginnings. But among their most notable acccomplishments has been bringing the term 'interoperability' squarely into focus and making it a part of our daily lexicon. Under the aegis of Erich Gunther - the company's chairman, co-founder and CTO as well as Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGiP) Administrator - Doug Houseman and Ben Boyd are tasked (respectively) with charting the firm's technological innovations and navigating the constantly changing regulatory and policy waters of an industry in transition. A tall order indeed, but their approaches to these daunting tasks and how those efforts fit into the greater good of our national Smart Grid initiatives are the substance of this interesting discussion. - Ed. EET&D : EnerNex has been on a pretty fast rampup since it's founding in 2003. Maybe we can start off with a quick recap of the company's mission and vision. Ben, would you like to lead off with a brief synopsis? Boyd : Yes, I'll be happy to do that. EnerNex provides research, engineering and smart grid consulting services, for the power industry. We focus on providing services around the development and application of new and emerging electric power technologies to engineer a cleaner, smarter energy system of the future. 18 ElectricEnergy T&D MAGAZINE I NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2011 Issue Doug Houseman
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By Ben Boyd, Vice President Regulatory/Policy and Doug Houseman, Vice President Technical Innovation EET&D : Is there any particular dimension of the company that stands out as a defining product, service or other activity, Doug? Houseman : Well, our primary product is really information, usually packaged as technical reports, measurement data, design recommendations or expert advice. Moreover, our services are often utilized in conjunction with the development of key fundamental technologies, such as the original EPRI IntelliGrid initiative, with which our founders and early employees were integrally involved.
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