As the Smart Grid continues to evolve over the next 20 years, the customers will have the ability to add monitoring, analysis, control and communication capabilities to the power delivered to a facility, power generated and used within a facility, as well as the power exported from a customer back to the grid. Thus customers will have the opportunity to tailor their electrical power usage and reduce energy consumption costs. The NIST Smart framework includes a wide range of smart grid energy management applications and electrical service provider interactions which will present new opportunities for electrical contractors to enhance existing systems in residential, commercial, and industrial facilities

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