Most homes already have a smart meter that digitally communicates with the electric grid. If you're looking to get rooftop solar panels, a smart meter is an essential piece of equipment. Here's why.

From CNET, the 5 most interesting smart home products from CES 2022. To see if smart devices could endanger the grid, we must first look at how much power they consume.

The electrical grid relies on technology to strike the balance between anticipating and meeting the energy needs of consumers. That fact won’t change anytime soon. But there will be changes to how the ...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has backed constructing a national “smart grid” allowing utility companies to remotely control Americans’ personal devices… ...

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smart Wires today announced it has raised $65 million to propel its growth and meet rising energy needs exacerbated by the appetite for electricity from data centers ...

Georgia utility Southern Company is teaming up with Georgia Tech and Smart Wires to roll out a US Department of Energy (DOE)-backed project aimed at boosting Georgia and Alabama’s electric grid ...

BP Energy Partners led a $65 million investment in Smart Wires in a bet that the provider of power-flow control systems will benefit from utilities’ desperate need to increase grid capacity ...

During a 2022 heat wave in the West, California’s power grid operators asked OhmConnect, one of the companies in our coalition, to reach out to its 200,000 members to reduce their energy use.

Smart meters could help strengthen Prince Edward Island's electrical grid, but none have been installed on the Island and it will take years after the work begins to complete the transition.