By switching to new smart grid, organizations can expect to enjoy many benefits such as tapping alternate energy sources and making energy-use decisions based on real-time pricing information. But transition to smart grid is not easy and involves lot of planning. Emerson Network Power has come up with a new eBook, "What Smart Grid Means to You," which according to Emerson (News - Alert) Network is designed to help those on the front lines of the Smart Grid transition.

The centuries old core framework of the nation's electrical grid is no longer capable of addressing the unique demands and challenges of a next-generation power infrastructure. A modern power infrastructure should incorporate such features as use of alternate energy sources and energy-use decisions led by real-time pricing information.

A transition to smart grid can solve lot many problems at one go.

Smart Grid will bridge the communication gap between supply and demand, spanning from power plants into our homes.

Smart Grid will handle multiple sources and levels of electricity generation, incorporating clean, alternate energy, like wind and solar.

Through digital delivery and control interfaces, Smart Grid will allow consumers to make informed decisions about their power use.

The organizations are encouraged nationwide to adopt smart grid system and "What Smart Grid Means to You" can be a valuable resource for the organizations contemplating a smart grid transition.

The eBook contains the strategies, which were outlined by Emerson Network Power (News - Alert) experts. The organizations on the verge of smart grid transition will find these strategies extremely helpful. The eBook addresses challenges and opportunities for CIOs and IT departments, consulting and specifying engineers, facility managers, telecom providers, and solar power system integrators.

The eBook has given emphasis on the responsibility of CIOs and IT departments that they should allow customers to make decisions on the basis of insight into real-time capacities and electricity costs.

The book also discussed how onsite power generation capabilities from both traditional and alternative sources, such as solar arrays and wind turbines can become a part of the organizations' ROI model.

The e-book said that facility managers' role becomes very important in the realization of the benefits of smart grid. Facility managers will need to initiate a stronger delineation between types of loads - such as non-essential, essential and critical - and then manage the load types by policy, suggested the Emerson Network Power experts.

When it comes to private telecommunications networks, service providers should structure their networks infrastructures as their own private Smart Grids through integration of Smart Grid technologies in the central office and the outside plant (OSP), the e-book advised.

So far as Solar Power System Integrators are concerned, they will need to work with vendors to ensure they are developing power architectures, inverters and energy monitors that can communicate and are compatible with Smart Grid standards.

To complement the eBook, Emerson Network Power is releasing a Smart Grid video series. The videos and eBook are available at www.EmersonNetworkPower.com/SmartGrid.