California’s big utilities have some tough deadlines to meet to give their customers the useful — if at times potentially unwelcome — energy usage data being collected by the millions of smart meters they’re deploying across the state. In a largely overlooked ruling, the California Public Utilities Commission said in December that Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric have until the end of 2010 to give their customers — and approved third parties, which could include Google, Microsoft or other makers of energy data portals — smart meter data that the utilities have collected in their back office servers.
via Cali Utilities: Get Ready to Give Your Customers Smart Meter Data!.
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