Abu Dhabi has been drumming up publicity for its planned carbon-neutral, zero-waste community and research complex, Masdar City, recently — last week airing intentions to raise $600 million to start construction in earnest. Now it says it’s partnering with General Electric to test the conglomerate’s so-called smart appliances, ranging from refrigerators to clothes dryers capable of communicating energy use data and running at off-peak times.
GE has signed on for a two-year pilot project to install its appliances in 10 Masdar City homes, starting in early 2010. The trial period is not only for the appliances, but also for the City’s advanced electrical grid, which will ideally transmit data from the appliances to its central utility in real time.
via General Electric turns Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City into appliance laboratory | VentureBeat.
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