Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and professional explainer focused on Smart Grid technologies and solutions. She helps clients understand and navigate the Smart Grid ecosystem of emerging technologies and markets. She has two decades of experience helping companies that range from small start-ups to multi-national corporations deliver competitive and cost-effective solutions and services to customers. Her work often involves introductions of visible and disruptive products or services to customers, and the use of management and communications strategies and tactics to enable consumer acceptance of change.
Christine is the author of the Smart Grid Dictionary Plus, the first dictionary that explains the jargon, acronyms, and terminology used by utilities, regulators, standards organizations, and manufacturers. Based in Silicon Valley, she is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and writes a blog about the challenges and opportunities that Smart Grid solutions bring to the evolving electricity supply chain, and their impacts to consumers.