Think back to the age of telecom before the breakup of AT&T, before the Internet, before Facebook or Twitter. That’s about how antiquated America’s system for delivering electricity—the electrical grid—is today. In many parts of the country, the grid is so “dumb” that workers still have to walk from house to house to read the electricity meter, and utilities have no clue when the lights go out until customers call to complain.
via Obama’s Smart-Grid Game Plan – BusinessWeek.
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