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A smart electric meter at a National Grid customer’s home. Customers can track usage through the utility’s website. ALBANY — National Grid is in the process of installing so-called smart meters at the ...

SPRINGFIELD — Your electric meter will soon be able to communicate with you in real time. That means a warning if you are using more power, and spending more money, than you’d planned. This week, ...

Rhode Island Energy, the state's largest utility, is well underway on their $153 million program to install approximately 540,000 smart electricity meters around the state. These advanced meters will ...

When you are away on vacation? What kind of refrigerator you have and how old it is? Rockland Electric, which is installing the state's first "smart" digital meters in Mahwah this month, says the ...

One of the biggest programs ever proposed by New York State Electric and Gas Corp. and its sister company was supposed to have begun last year. The proposal, estimated to cost upward of $500 million, ...

Eversource expects to exchange tens of thousands of meters per month, with substantial completion of the statewide rollout targeted for the end of 2027.