Smart Grid a Reality in Boulder, Colorado

Boulder Colorado's $100 million SmartGridCity project, which launched in May of 2008, is completed, according to Xcel Energy, the company responsible for developing the system. With the smart grid system, meters and sensors send information via broadband over powerline to an operations center. Those functions for customers include the ability to monitor energy usage, select when to use high-energy devices such as clothes dryers, and keep track of how much carbon the household is putting into the environment.