Exploring emerging customer needs for smart grid applications

IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Heiskanen, Eva ^a   Matschoss, Kaisa ^a  

^a National Consumer Research Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

Applications; Customers; Electricity; Lead users; Services; Smart grids; Smart metering

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMERS; LEAD USERS; SERVICES; SMART GRID; SMART METERING;

APPLICATIONS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICITY; EXHIBITIONS; SALES;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84860738639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISGTEurope.2011.6162655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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