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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (19555)	1/12/2008 3:54:20 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

There is actually a huge push for this from electrical utilities and regulators. Here in Ontario the Ontario Energy Board, has mandated that smart metering technology is enabled for two-way communication. The government of Ontario has established targets for the installation of 800,000 smart electricity meters by December 31, 2007, and installation of smart meters for all Ontario consumers by December 31, 2010. Dynamic pricing will soon follow. It will probably be up to the consumer to install the home control system to achieve maximum benefit from the system. Pilot projects are already underway around the world.