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Posted Mon May 5 2008: from International Herald-Tribune: U.S. electric companies offer "smart" power meters http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1210021693 As more utilities install "smart" power meters that track how much electricity flows into a home in real time, they are freer to offer alternatives to the average monthly rate that they traditionally charged to consumers.... Last year, about 95 percent of the participants saved money in ComEd's open-enrollment residential real-time pricing program, one of the first in the United States. The majority saved between 7 percent to 12 percent, the utility said. To date, about 4,000 of the utility's 3.3 million residential customers have signed up. [Read more stories about: efficiency increase] New!: No reader quips yet -- be the first! Got a PaniQuip? Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit): First name: The text shown in the Web image to the right: We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

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