From: Platts
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Currently, there is a disconnect at the federal level between those overseeing energy policy and regulations and decision makers in charge of communications policy, Utilities Technology Council President and CEO Joy Ditto said in an interview.
As a result, utilities are finding it more difficult to deploy information and communications technology (ICT) systems essential to reliability, safety, resilience and security, UTC contends. These networks are used by the power and natural gas sectors for smart metering; energy, outage and distribution management; and real-time monitoring of distribution and transmission systems, to name a few of their functions.
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