To opt out, an Xcel customer would have to move his meter from inside his home at a steep cost.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smart meters, technology considered essential to modernizing the power grid, are coming to Rhode Island. State regulators on ...

SPRINGFIELD — Your electric meter will soon be able to communicate with you in real time. That means a warning if you are using more power, and spending more money, than you’d planned. This week, ...

Mr. Murray is the president of the Mission:data Coalition, a nonprofit that represents clean energy companies pressing for customer-friendly energy data access policies at utilities. See more of our ...

LANSING — Michigan is investigating Consumers Energy, the state's second-biggest power utility, over malfunctioning automated electric meters that led the company to estimate bills because it could ...