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The US power grid is a machine on a truly gigantic scale. And it is also inherently distributed and decentralized: there is no single central controlling authority, rather a set of connected, interacting organizations that make energy management decisions in their own scope but coordinate with each other. The power grid is also changing: from the radial model where the power generated in large power plants is distributed to consumers to a model where customers are both producers and consumers of energy. These properties make the power system a prime target for fog computing applications.... Read more →