Although proponents tout the state-wide program for its efficiency, transparency, and safety, local governments and state legislators push for greater consumer rights when it comes to installing the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Over the next few years, RG&E and NYSEG will start installing smart meters in our homes, but it doesn’t come without controversy. Some people claim they’re a health hazard.

First Energy customers can opt out of a smart meter, but it will cost them a pretty penny. The company confirmed it charges ...

AEP-PSO, which plans to install more than 500,000 smart meters systemwide over the next few years, denies that those devices emit radio frequency radiation at a high enough level to make people sick.

SPOKANE, Wash.- If you live in Spokane County, you are more than likely to have received notice Avista is planning to install a smart meter at your residence. Since the announcement, question arose ...

PORT ANGELES — The “smart meters” for electricity and water that the city plans to install throughout Port Angeles will each produce less radio frequency, or RF, energy than a cellphone, city ...

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: New smart meters being installed in Western North Carolina provide real-time updates on energy consumption to customers and utility provider Duke Energy Progress. Some local ...

The smart grid is the next generation of the utility framework that converges utility providers, telecommunications infrastructure and information technology. Striving to take the utility delivery ...

We have smart phones, smart refrigerators, smart lights, smart vacuum cleaners. There’s even a smart fork that tracks your eating habits. But the meter that tracks the electricity that runs these ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Last year, officials with Alliant Energy began a three-year transition from analog meters to smart meters for the utility's roughly 750,000 customers in Iowa. Alliant officials say the ...