In The Advanced Smart Grid: Edge Power Driving Sustainability, co-authors John Cooper and Andres Carvallo describe the vision they developed from 2003 - 2010 at Austin Energy and in the Pecan Street Project. This book provides the reader insights into the evolution of the Smart Grid and the impact of Distributed Energy technologies on the future of Smart Grid.

Chapter 1. The Inevitable Emergence of the Smart Grid describes how abundant, cheap sensors and advancing network technology meet the demands of empowered customers on the edge.
Chapter 2. The Rationale for an Advanced Smart Grid walks the reader through the fundamental steps to build an advanced smart grid.
Chapter 3. Smart Convergence shows how infrastructures are responding to environmental changes and emerging technologies by becoming smart.
Chapter 4. Smart Grid 1.0 Emerges provides a case study of Austin Energy's pioneer smart grid from 2003-2010.
Chapter 5. Envisioning and Designing Smart Grid 2.0 provides a case study of the Pecan Street Project and the design of an energy internet in 2009.
Chapter 6. The National Perspective on Smart Grid reveals multiple stakeholders active in smart grid in the US in 2010.
Chapter 7. Fast Forward to Smart Grid 3.0 provides a peek into a future of abundant energy and information.

In The ABCs Of Community Broadband: How Digital Transitions Will Transform America's Communities, One At A Time, author John Cooper reveals insights on the alternative broadband industry, specifically concerning new ways that communities can take advantage of new technologies and new business models to bring about transformative digital transitions.

The rapid adoption of the internet, the spread of the world wide web and continuing progress in IT and other areas of telecommunications mean that Digital Transition will be the compelling topic for communities in the 21st century for years to come.

This book is written to help generate a national dialogue on local broadband infrastructure, or in many cases, the lack thereof. Written in plain language, this is an informative guide for local community leaders of all kinds, from elected public officials, to private business leaders, from city staff to neighborhood organizers, from chamber of commerce members to economic development board members.

The ABCs of Community Broadband provides readers the key to understanding what is happening in this complex area, and what they can do about it, today.