Interoperable standard smart grid products to manage & monitor the grid to 1) lower costs & emissions, 2) increase reliability & sustainability, and 3) detect & mitigate congestion, faults, and cyber-attacks 🤺At optimumloadshape.com we reduce the cost of electricity and increase grid resiliency by informing Internet-connected devices when low-cost, clean energy is available. Our Optimum Load Shape (OLS) architecture enables demand for electricity to optimize supply. Our patented standards-based technology manages the power grid using the Internet of Things (IoT); is simpler than other approaches; leverages utilities' dynamic tariffs, metering, and billing infrastructures; bypasses regulatory delays; and rapidly deploys on a global scale to speed the transition to 100% renewable energy. Annual savings scale to $100B less power generation costs, 50% less fresh water, and—when including transportation— 2/3 less anthropogenic heat & carbon emissions. Our OLS producer publishes cost-optimized load shapes for 24,000 locations in 24 counties. Below, under Robert Cruickshank Associates, is a link to our interactive viewer and OLS web API.I helped design and operate global broadband networks that delight customers—and modernize the grid. While celebrating the 25th anniversary of the DOCSIS world standard cable modem, I remain laser-focused on using Broadband to scale and secure the smart grid. I was the first to bring non-member funding to CableLabs and author proposals for the U.S. Department of Energy that funded CableLabs, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the development of the ANSI/SCTE 267 & 271 standards for grid sensing & control. I built the CableLabs team (twice) that led the design, development, and interoperability testing of the world standard cable modem; 2+ billion sold. Every 2 seconds, a new cable modem is installed somewhere in the world, changing the way we work, live, play, and love.I am an interdisciplinary entrepreneur and history buff trained by AT&T Bell Labs and the U.S. Air Force WY ANG. I am a Fellow of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers in the EU, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers.My passion is creating operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) that target repairs and non-wires solutions in the grid and broadband networks to prevent the next failure, wildfire, customer support call, truck roll, and defection.