Market Insight

Consumer Engagement in the Smart Grid Is Not Discretionary

Author: Larry Fisher, Practice Director, Automotive, Energy and Emerging Technologies

Published: 31 Jan 2011

The importance of consumer education on the benefits and safety of smart meters was underscored recently by a consumer protest in which local residents actually blocked the only road into a small California town in an attempt to prevent smart meter installations.

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