In March 2008, it all sounded great. Xcel Energy announced that Boulder would be home to the very first smart grid in the country, and people loved it. City council members thought the idea was stupendous; environmentalists said it would help the average person conserve electricity — or at least spread out their electricity use so that peak loads could be diminished (and, therefore, so could peak-load plants that are most often run off of coal and natural gas).
But two years later, the smart grid doesn’t look as shiny as it once did.
via Was building Boulder’s smart grid a smart idea? | BigGreenBoulder Boulder, CO : BigGreenBoulder.
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