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Utilities are actively developing plans for the future information and communication infrastructure that will support a more intelligent power system. This panel session contribution describes the roadmap development process being used by utilities to define the technologies that will be part of the smart grid and the migration path from the existing infrastructure.
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McGranaghan et al. (2008) studied this question.