SPRINGFIELD — Your electric meter will soon be able to communicate with you in real time. That means a warning if you are using more power, and spending more money, than you’d planned. This week, ...
Growing up, one of my father’s catchphrases was, “Turn off the lights when you leave a room; we’re not made of money!” I rolled my eyes back then, but I get it now. Like many, my electric bill has ...
Smart, self-configuring, fully adaptable networks that connect the power producer with the consumer represent the essence of smart grids. Smart grids create a platform of robust data networks that ...
Designers who target the global market must account for the differences in submarkets and accommodate them within the confines of their basic designs. Two variations on an electrical power-meter IC ...
On Tuesday, the Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation provided an update on efforts to restore power outages impacting ...
A “smart” meter would not have kept the lights on three weeks ago, if you were the luckless victim of a tree toppling onto your neighborhood power lines — but it could have instantaneously alerted ...