Dominion Virginia Power announced yesterday Charlottesville will be one of the first cities to experience smart grid electricity management. For those of you not aware what this is, smart grid tech allows consumers and utility companies to track energy usage in real time. This allows consumers to take an even deeper dive and find out how much power appliances are using at any given instant. The idea here is that you can see the direct impact of your energy dependency and make appropriate changes, decreasing your utility costs and allowing the utility to know if it can increase or decrease power output given current usage requirements.
Google’s PowerMeter service will allow this kind of web-based monitoring sometime in the future. More information after the break. From the press release:
U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, said, “Smart grid technology is our gateway to the frontiers of the new energy economy, and I’m proud that Charlottesville will be leading the way with this demonstration program. I believe our area can be a catalyst for new technologies that will lower costs for consumers while also reducing our carbon footprint.
“This initiative gives consumers new tools to make smarter choices in how — and when — they use energy,” said U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner. “I salute Dominion Virginia Power and Charlottesville and Albemarle County officials for blazing the trail in Virginia with this next-generation energy conservation program.”
Has DOM contacted any of you to install this in your home? Please send us the details.
[pic from DOM.com]
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Being among the first to get something is rarely good.
Dom Delouise? I thought he was dead.
See how bad it is?
Paul Prudhomme is the new Dom DeLuise is the new Pavarotti.
your new alias is the new otterdung
*snort*
no, wait! –hipsterbot is the new backup planet
now, now. i didn’t do a thing! been keeping VERY quiet and VERY sincere. real my informative and earnest commentary on KYLE’S EVOLUTIONARY CROSSFIT TRAINING MASTERWORLD. isn’t hipsterbot the one who kept telling me about his/her ‘taint’, whatever the fuck that is biologically? or was that someone else? i get them confused. who wrote the ones about dating nice guys only to dick them over and ruin them forever-and-ever?
/it’s a whirlwind in here
yes—i got the new power-meter about three weeks ago. very cool and fun, but not-yet lifechanging.
Notbutt is the new taint.