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They’re called smart meters. And both Con Edison and NYSEG utility companies say they are a way for customers to keep watch on energy use and to save money. Con Edison said on its website it has ...

After we posted about National Grid’s smart meters coming to Buffalo, our comment section filled up fast. We went through ...

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National Grid plans to start installing more than 83,000 new smart meters across Niagara County later this month. So far, the ...

SPRINGFIELD — Your electric meter will soon be able to communicate with you in real time. That means a warning if you are using more power, and spending more money, than you’d planned. This week, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smart meters, technology considered essential to modernizing the power grid, are coming to Rhode Island. State regulators on ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) — With temperatures going up, a lot of North Texans are turning their thermostats down. That, in turn, can drive our energy bills up. By now, most Texans have smart ...

National Grid has announced it will begin installing smart meters to its more than 121,000 Buffalo-area customers beginning ...

Three leading utility meter manufacturers have joined forces to work on developing standards that will let their smart meters work in any British home's smart energy system. The Elster, Landis+Gyr and ...

Electric rates for most Connecticut utility customers could increase again as the result of a decision by the Public Utility Regulatory Authority to press ahead with an $855 million plan to replace ...