Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Xcel Energy installed its first smart electric meter in Amarillo Monday morning as a part of a multiyear project to bring ...

Most homes already have a smart meter that digitally communicates with the electric grid. If you're looking to get rooftop solar panels, a smart meter is an essential piece of equipment. Here's why.

The state’s largest electric distributor may not start to install next-generation meters, which can cut monthly bills and prompt a faster response to power outages, at Connecticut homes and businesses ...

New technology will make it easier for the electric utility to know when your power is out and when it clicks back on. Atlantic City Electric and Jersey Central Power & Light say they are about to ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Central New York customers are first in line for new “smart meters” that National Grid will roll out across its Upstate territory to all 1.7 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smart meters, technology considered essential to modernizing the power grid, are coming to Rhode Island. State regulators on ...

When the widget you’re working on is powered by a battery or a USB charger, running it on the bench is probably pretty safe. But when the object of your reverse-engineering desire is a residential ...

El Paso Electric has begun installing smart, automated customer meters in the El Paso area. The company will install the meters in the Las Cruces area in September. It plans to install 165,072 meters ...