However you choose to define it, there is no ignoring it, pooh-poohing it or pretending it doesn't exist. The smart grid is coming, whatever the heck that means.Whether the smart grid as you see it reinvents electric generation, transmission and distribution or merely enables you to wrest all possible efficiencies from an existing system in a shorter term, its promise is definitely upon us. And some serious operating cash has recently shown up, too. Last month, President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package ticketed an immediate investment of $4.6 billion in smart grid development.
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