Comments on: Itron: Utilities Aren't Spending on Smart Meters http://gigaom.com/cleantech/itron-utilities-arent-spending-on-smart-meters/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:23:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jim http://gigaom.com/cleantech/itron-utilities-arent-spending-on-smart-meters/#comment-22463 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:47:06 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=30217#comment-22463 Utilities still haven’t figured out top-down (they turn off your A/C on a hot day) versus bottom-up (they raise the price of electricity dynamically until you turn off your own A/C) so they are unlikely to have figured out a meter technology.

Most likely, they (the utilities) will likely go cheap on the meters, resulting in something under powered for what is truly needed for the smart grid. That would delay a reasonable deployment by a decade or more.

It’s probably not a bad sign that they are holding off. It would be good if they get this whole thing right the first time, don’t you think?

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