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FCC allocating wireless spectrum to smart grid Bernard Cole Washington, D.C. - As part of a national broadband plan it will roll out in a week or so, the Federal Communications is exploring ways to make use of a portion of the wireless spectrum to serve multiple users including utilities building smart electric grids as part of a national broadband plan the FCC will release March 17. "Just looking at data growth for iPhones and other devices, you can see broadband in America will increasingly be a wireless solution, so spectrum will be a core issue we will be handling in the national broadband plan," said Nick Sinai, director of energy and environment on the National Broadband Task Force at the FCC, speaking at the Grid ComForum held recently in California. "It's clear there's no one system for the smart grid, so certainly we're going to make sure the plan that comes out March 17 will stress there is no one answer," Sinai said. He said that especially in relation to applications there is now a spectrum crisis, “so we don't want to look at this in a smart-grid only way.” There are a number of different options for spectrum use under the FCC's national broadband plan, Sinai said. "As we're thinking about ways to clear or share federal spectrum we want to think about it in context of all the possible uses of that spectrum," he added.
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