What Is USrural To Us?
- Financial partner that pays for building and expanding our community’s smart grid
- Operating partner that manages and maintains the community smart grid under our direction
- Research and development partner that will exploit ‘lessons learned’ on each ‘best-of-breed’ smart grid application it deploys in multiple power grid networks
- Provider of subsidized Internet access for our community’s schools, libraries, & medical facilities
What Does USrural Bring To The Table?
- Financial Resources for the community smart grid
- Telecommunications Expertise / Manpower that’s independent from vendors
- New Technology Solutions Powering Extreme Capacity Broadband
- Vendor Independent Smart Grid Research / Development / Deployment Expertise
What Would Be Our Responsibilities In A Relationship With USrural?
- Provide right-of-way for smart grid and broadband/mobile apps
- Set smart grid strategy based on customer benefits / requirements
- Direct when and how smart grid apps operate
- Approve data integrity and security of all customer data that adjudicates service disputes
- Pay service fees only for actual smart grid usage
What Would Our Benefits Be From A Relationship With USrural?
- Eliminate up-front community smart grid and communications Capital Expenditures we face
- Remove urgency to raise energy tariffs in order to repay these new investments “on time”
- Roll out ‘best-off-breed’ smart grid apps one at a time, based on their benefits to our customers
- Reducing service disruption, accommodating new energy demand without increasing supply
- Changing how and when smart grid costs impact energy tariffs
- Subsidized broadband for our community’s public institutions
- Subsidized ops & maintenance for the community power grid network
- New Resources with which to develop our community’s economy
- New local jobs
- New and more cost-effective local communications service to support new commerce
- More reliable / efficient / cost-effective energy to prompt new enterprise moves into the community
What Does USrural Seek From A Relationship With Us?
- Universal access right-of-way to all customer sites within our communities’ service footprint
- New smart grid and communications service usage revenues
- Partner whose continued viability is assured by developing our community’s economy
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