With the weather warming up around the country, it’s time that many start thinking about their annual spring cleaning checklist. This year, as you're planning for ways to deep clean, organize or just generally improve your home, don't forget to add energy-related home improvements to that list.

There are a number of easy, low-cost things that you can do to improve the overall energy efficiency of your home, saving you money on each month's bill and contributing to an overall societal decrease in greenhouse gases.

Here are a few that might be worthy of making yo… >>

It's been almost a decade now since the smart grid concept started to gain steam as a solution for improving our nation's aging electric infrastructure. While we’ve seen technology transform almost all aspects of our lives over the last couple of decades, our aging power grid had not really been modernized to match. The smart grid was proposed a solution to bring the grid up to speed with other aspects of our technologically advanced modern society.

By adding smart sensors, >>