In The Challenge of the Emerging Smart Consumer, author John Cooper explores the changing roles of utility and consumer as both are acted upon by technology change, new business models, and societal forces in the transitional smart grid industry.

In Ensuring a Secure Smart Grid, author John Cooper outlines a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity in smart grid design.

In Emerging Opportunities in the Next Generation of Energy Markets and Services, co-authors John Cooper and Christopher Dann (Booz & Co) share insights on potential opportunities in smart grid outside the traditional focus on utilities in the developed world and on the one-hundred year old electric utility business model.

In On Structural Change and the Emerging Broadband Economy, author John Cooper outlines his vision of the dynamic tension between distribution networks and distributed services inspired by the internet or delivered using the internet.