ESRI has won the bidding to supply software to a project that aims to build a Smart Grid in China.
The "SG186" project of the State Grid Corporation in China (SGCC) aims to strengthen information systems to support the build-out of a nationwide smart grid as part of the Eleventh Five-Year Program, which runs from 2006 to 2010.
Although a nationwide smart grid is not expected to be completed until at least 2020, the SGCC is currently undertaking a project that will collect more information on how power is distributed as the first step towards visualisation the structure of a smart grid.
