Rising energy costs have many homeowners looking for ways to manage their usage and lower their bills, and smart meters — which display real-time energy consumption—can be a useful tool in this effort ...

Most homes already have a smart meter that digitally communicates with the electric grid. If you're looking to get rooftop solar panels, a smart meter is an essential piece of equipment. Here's why.

Xcel Energy installed its first smart electric meter in Amarillo Monday morning as a part of a multiyear project to bring customers cleaner, safer and more reliable energy through advanced grid ...

Longmont will start upgrading manually read electric meters throughout the city with advanced, self-reading ones beginning the week of Aug. 15. The project, which is scheduled to take about one year ...

Electricity customers who elect not to have smart meters installed could be charged a fee to cover the rising cost of meter ...

If you’re one of the 51% of Garfield County residents who get their electricity from Xcel Energy, you probably received an email recently with the subject line “Time of use is here.” I recommend that ...

The state’s largest electric distributor may not start to install next-generation meters, which can cut monthly bills and prompt a faster response to power outages, at Connecticut homes and businesses ...

El Paso Electric has begun installing smart, automated customer meters in the El Paso area. The company will install the meters in the Las Cruces area in September. It plans to install 165,072 meters ...

New technology will make it easier for the electric utility to know when your power is out and when it clicks back on. Atlantic City Electric and Jersey Central Power & Light say they are about to ...