By now, many people are familiar with the vision of a “smart” electrical grid and its promised improvements to our outdated national power infrastructure. Intelligently transporting, storing and managing the electricity produced by everything from nuclear power plants to rooftop solar panels can deliver enormous efficiencies that should show up in the form of lower electricity bills for consumers and businesses.

Fewer people may be aware that the Research Triangle is fast becoming the Silicon Valley of the smart grid.

via Smart grid, off-grid – it’s all here – Other Views – NewsObserver.com.

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