Can you tell me about MC Dean’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building initiatives?
Bill Dean: We’re an expert engineering firm. Very few firms have the level of engineering expertise and technical expertise that we possess in the electrical arena. I would say in what I would call the field of micro-electrical generation which includes solar and wind energy in the micro sense (not in the banks and arrays of energy generation systems you see off the Atlantic Coast and along the mountains) there are a lot of new turbine technologies that are designed for urban applications and suburban applications. Distributed storage is also going to be a big deal as you start doing smart grid deployment beyond just the smart meter, but really when you are doing large scale switch tower you are going to have to have distributed storage so you can localize energy consumption. For example, a lot of the wind energy that is generated today, a lot of these kilowatts go straight into the ground – it can’t be deployed into the grid because the grid is not intelligent enough to shift energy s
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