VaasaETT's core team of specialists have provided assistance to more than 300 organizations in around 50 countries including Shell International, E.ON, EDF, ERGEG (European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas), Nokia, ABB, RAO, Fortum and ENECO.  For more information, visit: www.vaasaett.com

IMS Research is a leading provider of market research, business intelligence and consulting services, primarily to the electronics industry. Our services span a diverse range of sectors including semiconductors, wireless, consumer, broadband, automotive, medical, power & energy, security, mechatronics and automation.
  
The utility meter market has been covered by IMS Research for well over a decade, with annual reports on electricity, gas, water and heat meters. A growing list of reports from IMS Research is forming our Smart Grid market view from our Connectivity, Power & Energy, Renewables and Automation research groups. Markets currently covered in detail by IMS Research in the smart grid ecosystem include smart meters, smart home (HAN), distribution automaton, hybrid electric vehicles, renewable energy, commercial energy management systems, and consumer surveys covering issues such as demand response. All market segments are covered by end-equipment data and also semiconductor content and market opportunity.
 
Founded in the 1980s, IMS Research has established itself as a reliable and trusted source of market intelligence. Today we have over 120 analysts spread across three locations: Austin, USA, Wellingborough, UK, and Shanghai, China, enabling us to provide clients with comprehensive and detailed research on today’s global markets. Our customer list encompasses most of the household names in the electronics industry. For more information go to www.imsresearch.com

The Energy Retail Association (ERA), formed in 2003, represents the major electricity and gas suppliers in the domestic market in Great Britain.

The ERA works closely with government, NGOs, charities and other organisations in England, Scotland and Wales to ensure a coordinated approach to dealing with the key issues affecting our industry and the British consumer.

All the main energy suppliers, operating in the residential market, in Great Britain are members of the association - British Gas, EDF Energy, npower, E.ON, Scottish Power, and Scottish and Southern Energy.

Since its inception, the ERA has ultimately focused on finding ways to continually improve customers’ experiences with their electricity and gas suppliers. This means that we lead on issues such as:
• Tackling fuel poverty and protecting vulnerable customers
• Delivering energy efficiency schemes
• Ensuring good sales practice
• Developing hassle-free systems for changing electricity or gas supplier
• Developing industry standards for customer billing
• Preventing debt and disconnections
 
The ERA is headed by the Chief Executive, Dr Garry Felgate, who was previously a Director of the Carbon Trust as well as occupying senior roles with AEA Technology, KPMG and A.T. Kearney . He is given high level direction from a Board made up of the Chief Executive Officers and Managing Directors of our six member companies. For more information, please visit www.energy-retail.org.uk

"TAHI (The Application Home Initiative) is a not for profit organisation whose mission is "to accelerate the adoption of products and services by connected home based users". This means that TAHI looks for ways to improve the market for any product into the home space and all services that interface with them.

TAHI is a forum for understanding and growing the market. As such it has working groups in Energy Management and Smart Metering, Telecare and Assisted Living, Smart Building and Digital Infrastructure and, because all the infrastructure, services and equipment will have to work together, an Interoperability Working Group.

The IWG has been working to prepare a standard or set of rules for things to be interoperable and is standardising its Interoperability Framework Requirements Specification as a CENELEC Workshop Agreement. Beyond this TAHI is active in the Future Internet, since ultimately everything will be part of the FI, and is looking at helping its membership get involved in the EU FP7 Future Internet PPP call - expected in June.

TAHI is one of the very few forums where a wide variety of organisations can come together to take a holistic view of the market for systems into the home and form project consortia in an open environment.

Any organisation associated with products and services in the home space should join TAHI. For more information: www.theapplicationhome.com