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Understanding Smart Meters & Radio Frequency

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Smart meters are a very important step to improving the delivery of electricity for consumers. They will give you more insight into your energy usage and more control over your energy expendit…

Smart Grid Keeps Your Power On

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Even though most of us give little thought to whether the lights will turn on when we flip the switch, on any given day the equivalent of 500,000 people in the U.S. are without power for 2 hou…

Smart Grid. Smart Budgets.

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New pricing plans enabled by the smart grid and smart meters can help you become a smart power consumer who saves money and helps improve the environment.

How the smart grid underpins community resilience

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Communities around the country are facing unprecedented challenges from weather and climate events. The winter of 2013-14 provides a case in point, with the polar vortex freezing much of the M…

College move-in days and the smart grid

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More than 36 million people move every year according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That's 3.5 times the amount of people who visit Disneyland within a year. Moving is time consuming and stressfu…

If the electricity grid goes out

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On any given day the equivalent of 500,000 people in the U.S. are without power for 2 hours or more. In other words, studies have shown that power outages cost the U.S. economy around $80 bill…

4 ways the smart grid benefits you

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How does the smart grid save me money? What is the smart grid? How does smart grid technology benefit my daily life as an energy user? For many people, these commonly asked questions are at th…

Are advanced meters a fire hazard?

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Smart meters do not cause fires: Smart meters cannot combust or ignite. Overheating is typically caused when there are problems with the meter enclosure. These problems can’t always be d…

Are smart meters accurate?

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Utilities are confident in the performance of their vendors and the equipment they are deploying as part of their grid modernization efforts. The meter make / model utilities selected undergo …

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