1. .comSmart Grid View
Big-Picture Tools with Best Practices for the Smart Grid

2. Issues, Needs
As baby boomers retire, operational expertise
and big-picture understanding
walks out the door.
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Innovative workforce education is vital for
accelerating competency development and
installing smart grid technologies.
Systemic knowledge is crucial to strategic
success, yet it is the most difficult type of
knowledge to capture.

3. Conceptualize Collaborate Communicate Innovate
SmartGridView, The Solution

4. How SmartGridView Works
• Organizes knowledge using an advanced ontology
• Builds Views that reveal essential conceptual relationshipsEnables rapid and accurate
understanding of technologies from all perspectivesEnhances big-picture thinkers’ ability to
share complex information quicklyDelivers transparency for all forms of planning

5. What’s Next?
• Currently, SmartGridView is a service tailored for utilities and vendors. In the future, it will
transition into a commercial information clearinghouse, complete with tools for
sensemaking, scenario planning, interpreting markets, evolving the business model, and
packaging investments.SGV will include customized resources for specific stakeholder
groups, including government agencies, regulators, standard development organizations,
information providers, traders, venture capitalists, and consumers.

6. What’s Next?
• Currently, SmartGridView is a service tailored for utilities and vendors. In the future, it will
transition into a commercial information clearinghouse, complete with tools for
sensemaking, scenario planning, interpreting markets, evolving the business model, and
packaging investments.SGV will include customized resources for specific stakeholder
groups, including government agencies, regulators, standard development organizations,
information providers, traders, venture capitalists, and consumers.