My blog dated April 19 focused on PG&E activities that seemed to be designed to kill the spirit and the objectives of the Smart Grid. Since then, PG&E has admitted that mistakes were made in some meter installs (although my PG&E smart meter functions perfectly, thank you very much), the tariff change is wending its way [...]
The news coming from PG&E these days is trending from bad to worse for the Smart Grid and for this country’s citizens. First they created a public relations disaster with their smart meter rollout, which now has its own term called “the Bakersfield effect”. PG&E investment in a sensible communications plan and budget could have [...]
The State of California mandated that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) work with the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) and California Energy Commission (CEC) to create requirements for a Smart Grid deployment plan by July of this year. These three entities held workshops this past week to gather information and offer researchers, consumers, product [...]