Rising energy costs have many homeowners looking for ways to manage their usage and lower their bills, and smart meters — which display real-time energy consumption—can be a useful tool in this effort ...

Smart meters reduce the cost of meter reading and make it possible to detect and respond to power outages quickly. Until recently, most U.S. households had mechanical electric meters. Utility ...

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.

Longmont will start upgrading manually read electric meters throughout the city with advanced, self-reading ones beginning the week of Aug. 15. The project, which is scheduled to take about one year ...

Xcel Energy installed its first smart electric meter in Amarillo Monday morning as a part of a multiyear project to bring customers cleaner, safer and more reliable energy through advanced grid ...

If you’re one of the 51% of Garfield County residents who get their electricity from Xcel Energy, you probably received an email recently with the subject line “Time of use is here.” I recommend that ...

The state’s largest electric distributor may not start to install next-generation meters, which can cut monthly bills and prompt a faster response to power outages, at Connecticut homes and businesses ...

El Paso Electric has begun installing smart, automated customer meters in the El Paso area. The company will install the meters in the Las Cruces area in September. It plans to install 165,072 meters ...

Smart meters, built on secure, transparent, and consumer-friendly technology, function like traditional electronic meters but ...