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large scale is the Future Renewable
and around the city of Boulder with
Electric Energy Delivery and
automation and communications
Management (FREEDM) Systems
capabilities to enable two-way
Center, established in 2008 by the
communication of electricity needs.
National Science Foundation and
headquartered at North Carolina
Xcel won’t have enough data
State University. FREEDM is
to assess energy and cost savings
partnering with universities,
until early 2010, but analysts are
industry and national laboratories
optimistic that the utility’s costly
in 28 states and nine countries to
experiment will reap benefits
develop technologies they say will
down the road for consumers,
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“revolutionize the nation’s power
utilities and the environment.
grid and speed renewable electric-
Indeed, environmentalists and
energy technologies into every
economists alike have high hopes
home and business.” So far, some 60
that widespread implementation of
utilities, alternative energy startups,
such “intelligent” systems could help WEB-TECHS
electrical equipment manufacturers
usher in a new age of unprecedented
and other firms have signed onto the
energy efficiency, emissions
Technology Solutions
new partnership.
reductions and cost savings around
the United States and beyond.
for Small Businesses
One such utility, Colorado-based
Xcel Energy, has even begun to put GOT AN ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTION? Send it
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smart grid technology into practice
to: EarthTalk, c/o E/The Environmental Magazine,
P.O. Box 5098, Westport, CT 06881; submit it at:
on a trial basis for a small percentage www.emagazine.com/earthtalk/thisweek/, or e-mail:
WWW.WEB-TECHS.COM
of its customer base. The utility has
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www.emagazine.com/earthtalk/archives.php.
spent some $100 million outfitting
5,000 homes and businesses in
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