While industry insiders debate the finer points of the smart grid in Washington this week at GridWeek, I am realizing that consumers know precious little about the overhaul that our nation's ...

The HVAC industry is perched on the next piece of cutting-edge technology - the emerging smart grid. Still early in its development, the government is working to integrate and manage a new electricity ...

Sixty-eight percent of consumers have never heard of the smart grid and 63 percent draw a blank about smart meters, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Meanwhile, consumers think smart grids ...

DTE Energy’s smart grid technology has enabled prevention of nearly 5,000 power interruptions and more than 1.8 million minutes without power for customers so far in 2024 “We're dedicated to reducing ...

WASHINGTON — Thomas Alva Edison, meet the Internet. More than a century after Edison invented a reliable light bulb, the nation's electricity distribution system, an aging spider web of power lines, ...

Public doubts about smart meters -- the basic components of a smart grid -- are in the news once again. The New York Times just ran a piece about the "Stop Smart Meters" movement in the San Francisco ...

The basics of a smart power grid are straightforward. Utilities get the ability to communicate with and control end-user hardware, from industrial-scale air conditioners to residential water heaters.

The grid could always be smarter. In Vermont, smart people worked hard to make it work well, he says. I think after the investment of the 2009 Recovery Act money in smart grid technology, Vermont is ...

Despite growing consumer interest in the "smart grid," many – if not most – electric utilities in the United States appear to be woefully unprepared to educate the masses about the substance behind ...

Cisco hopes to do more than simply secure a large part of the smart grid market for itself; it's also hoping that its technology helps prevent the kind of cyber-security breaches that could threaten ...

Schneider Electric has been selected by Nova Scotia Power to implement an advanced distribution management system-based outage management system as an integrated smart grid solution to improve ...

Launched on November 16, 2009, the First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure ETF (GRID) is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to provide a broad exposure to the Utilities ...