Flagship smart-grid startup Silver Spring Networks has just landed a toehold in the future 65-million smart-meter market of Brazil, launching a 1,000-home pilot project with partner AES Eletropaulo in the country’s business capital of Sao Paolo.
Consider it an opening shot in a competition of smart grid giants over Brazil’s massive potential smart-grid market.
Silver Spring is going to have to scrap against the giants in the space. Landis+Gyr (now Toshiba), Itron, Aclara, Echelon, Elster, Trilliant and General Electric all have some kind of smart metering partnerships going.
