Smart Grid Hype and Reality: A Systems Approach to Maximizing Customer Return on Utility Investment
Paul Alvarez leads the Wired Group, a consultancy helping clients unleash the latent value in distribution utility businesses.  His perspectives have been formed by 15 years in the industry as both utility insider and consultant to industry regulators, associations, and suppliers. He has led comprehensive, unbiased evaluations of large smart grid deployments, including Boulder, Colorado for Xcel Energy and Cincinnati, Ohio for that state’s Public Utilities Commission.  He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado’s Global Energy Management Program and Michigan State University’s Institute for Public Utilities.  He holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and a master’s degree in Management from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.