GE Brings Good Things To Life, 21st Century Smart Grid Style

Earth Techling have given this idea of networks intelligently connecting consumers and utilities in a two-way partnership of energy efficiency management a lot of air time of late. They chatted with People Power about its idea of letting end users develop their own devices for understanding smart grid data. And they picked Intel’s brain on its role inside the machines of the smart grid. Now they come to perhaps the biggest interview of all in this occasional smart grid series: GE. General Electric, of any single company, has what looks to be the greatest to gain in seeing a successful smart grid roll out nationwide. They’ve developed a wide array of things around this grid concept, ranging from renewable energy generators like wind turbines to the “smart” appliances which monitor and communicate across the network energy usage patterns. Read more.