Utility Automation & Monitoring
Estimating Transmission Costs for New Generation Technologies
FERC Complaint Targets Duke, PJM Transmission Planning
Utility Automation & Monitoring
Smart Grid in North and South America
Market developments toward grid modernization
17%
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) at which the U.S. SCADA market revenue is expected to grow during the 2014 to 2020 period
At this point, the CAGR for U.S. SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) market revenue has increased from $0.8 billion in 2009 to $2.3 billion in 2013. Primarily, this revenue was generated through the retrofit market, which accounted for a share of nearly 70 percent. Revenue is...
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