Smart Metering is about replacing one of the ultimate bastions of outmoded electromechanic technology by a new generation of smart electric meters. What seems to be an evolutionary development accompanying the global trend from an analog into a highly digital world could have a rather revolutionary impact on the iron patterns of today’s power industry. [...]
2009 is turning into the year of the smart grid. Company press releases, government announcements and new subsidy programmes for smart grid technologies are appearing everywhere.
Many smart grid companies are focused on the transfer of information between households and utilities via wireless networks and the Internet. Essentially providing instant information on energy consumption to both [...]