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.

A group of Dutch scientists have been testing out some of today’s “smart” electrical meters to check their accuracy, among other things. Not ones to disappoint, the scientists have found consistently ...

PROVIDENCE — In a unanimous vote last month, state utilities regulators approved a proposal to replace electric meters in Rhode Island with smart meters that supporters say will put the state on track ...

ROCHESTER — The service that Rochester-based ScrapSafe offers to power companies across the country is “environmentally friendly and economically sound,” says the company’s VP of Marketing David Colby ...

Houston-area electricity customers last month began receiving the first of what likely will be successive waves of notices warning them their power could be shut off if they don't make their electric ...

Smart meters, technology considered essential to modernizing the power grid, are coming to Rhode Island. State regulators on Wednesday approved a $153-million plan for Rhode Island Energy to replace ...

JERICHO, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Power is going high-tech on Long Island, as PSEG rolls out a new way of measuring electricity use. But as CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff reported, some are worried that the new ...

LAKELAND | Amy Adams had just returned to her northwest Lakeland home when she smelled something burning. Adams and her family members also noticed theirs was the only home in the neighborhood that ...