I've been to the UK twice this year. The traffic is terrible! Worse than I ever remember! Commentators that's a good sign -a sign of economic prosperity. That certainly seems to be the case in the UK. My last European-related blog -Ferguson Group Ltd keeps an Eye on Operations with Cisco Physical Security -talked about the Oil industry and how the UK's fortunes were turned around by the North Sea Oil discovery at about the same time the US astronauts were landing on the moon.

This time it's the Utility Industry -electric power to be exact -that's causing a stir.

Creating the Telecommunication Blueprint for Grid Modernization, Weston Power Distribution had already chosen Cisco for a Low Carbon Study, building a pilot communications infrastructure to support 11kV grid reinforcement monitoring. The Flexible Approaches to Low Carbon Networks (FALCON) initiative, a government funded study project in the UK has the goal of improving the  industry's understanding of infrastructure needs in a low carbon future.

U.K. utility regulator Ofgem has estimated that