[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

download.broadband.gov/plan/national-broadband-plan-chapter-12-energy-and-environment.pdf

[TXDuke]

These smart meters are being used in some places here in TX and are causing electric bills to triple. In fact, things are so bad with them that the State is getting involved to evaluate the smart meters. From everything that I’ve heard, nobody using the smart meters likes them.

[freespirited]

Their primary role will be in allowing consumers to better regulate their energy usage

Is this really true, or is the real goal to allow the govt, via the utility company, to control our energy use?

[reader25]

CenterPoint Energy just received a $100/m grant form the DOE to implement smart grid technologies in the Houston area. All digital meters should be install within two years, then the fun starts.

[dr_who]

Seems like the FCC is in charge of everything these days... when they ought to be closing up shop.

[dr_who]

Couldn’t be another Obama plan to take over the rest of the economy, no.

[bigbob]

You don’t need broadband to have a smart grid. Meters send information once a month, and demand monitoring and control is very low bandwidth. Smart grid does require access to the internet but it’s extremely low bandwidth.

But the whole broadband thing is so screwed up this is the least of it.

[Cindy]

Off Thread Topic...

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/chu/index?tab=articles

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Live from Stanford: Secretary Chu on the Global Clean Energy Challenge
WHITEHOUSE.gov ^ | March 08, 2010 at 01:45 PM EST | Posted by Secretary Steven Chu
Posted on March 8, 2010 11:27:43 PM PST by Cindy

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/08/live-stanford-s-sustainability-summit

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Live from Stanford: Secretary Chu on the Global Clean Energy Challenge

Posted by Secretary Steven Chu on March 08, 2010 at 01:45 PM EST What are the steps we must take as a nation to create new, clean energy jobs and ensure America’s long-term competitiveness? What are the consequences for our climate of inaction? How can science and technology offer us new and better choices – and how can America’s young people make a difference?

Today, I’m returning to Stanford University, where I spent many years as a professor, to discuss these and many other issues with a great group of students. I’d like to invite you to watch my speech live here at 3:00PM Eastern time/noon Pacific, and then share your thoughts afterward on my personal Facebook page to continue the conversation.

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“Tell Me Again-—Why Is He at Princeton?”
Manhattan Institute ^ | March 18, 2010 | Charlotte Allen
Posted on March 21, 2010 2:52:47 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan

[Nuc1]

So now they want control of my heat, cooling, and transportation. What a wonderful, thing our government and technology, working together to make slaves of us all.