Asking Our Power Utilities To Take the Plunge into Smart Grid

Here’s a follow-on to my post about rethinking our relationships with our power utilities.  According to my friends at the SmartGridNews, it appears that the State of Massachusetts may be in the process of doing exactly that.

It wasn’t that long ago that government officials needed to have the benefits of smart grid explained to them.  Now some of these very same people are mandating that the utilities that serve their citizens deploy technology like smart meters, while providing the utilities a path to be compensated accordingly.  That’s a positive development, to be sure.