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What Can The Walking Dead Teach Us About Energy?
There’s a lot to like about autumn. Trees are erupting with gold and orange leaves, temperatures (and energy bills) are down; there's football to watch, food-based holidays and the return of your...
View ArticleBeware of Energy Monsters
Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative is issuing a Public Service Announcement warning consumers to be on the lookout for the Energy Monsters lurking in their homes: ---Public Service AnnouncementFor...
View ArticleDistributed Generation & Net Metering Fact Sheet
A fact sheet about the benefits of next-generation smart grid technologies. Providing answers to many common questions, it simplifies the principles of net metering and distributed generation and...
View ArticleHow To: Use Smart Grid Benefits
An overview of some benefits of the smart grid and what they mean for the average consumer.
View ArticleAre 1,000 Consumers Enough?
SGCC consumer pulse research identifies 5 consumer segments and gives key insights into the behavior and preferences of each. How do we ensure the validity of consumer pulse research structure and...
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Recipe: Energy-Efficient Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving dinner preparations can stuff your energy bill with unexpected costs. Follow these simple tips for a worry-free feast. Recipe courtesy of Charlotte Merckens. Total Time:24+ Hours of...
View ArticleClean Power Plan + the Smart Grid: Shared Goals
What are the common goals of the clean power plan and the smart grid and how do they align with what consumers want? Read more here.
View ArticleTop 5 Things Consumers Want From The Smart Grid
Through on-camera interviews, SGCC’s 2015 Consumer Voices research brings the consumer to life by allowing stakeholders to see and hear from individuals in their own words what they think about...
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A Global Perspective: 4 Smart Cities with Lessons for the U.S.
Recently, the White House announced a $160 million ‘Smart Cities’ initiative, “to help local communities tackle key challenges” including novel approaches to integrate distributed power sources, such...
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A Smart Cure for Power Outages
Power outages are disruptive. When the power goes out, it can bring your daily routine (and sometimes traffic!) to a grinding halt. Longer outages can be dangerous and stressful; the last thing you...
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Top 10 Friendliest Cities for Electric Vehicles
With almost every single automobile manufacturer now producing an electric option, more than 400,000 plug-in electric vehicles have been sold in the United States since 2008. As the electrical grid...
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Timing Is Everything: 3 Tips for Shifting Energy Usage
Think for a moment, what’s the first thing you do when you get home from work or school? Turn on the air-conditioning, TV and all of your lights? Take a shower? Preheat the oven to start dinner?...
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3 Easy Earth Day Upgrades
Celebrated in more than 193 countries, Earth Day serves as a reminder that we must continue to protect the planet. Since Earth Day’s founding in 1970, Congress has passed laws limiting carbon...
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Grilling Out: The Smart Grid Way
It’s summertime already? It seems as though just yesterday children were playing in the winter-white snow. While the snow was picturesque, the warm rays of summer are a welcomed change from the cold...
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5 Smart Home Gadgets for Smarter Energy Consumption
After such an exhilarating cross-country road trip into the future, it can be pretty disenchanting to return to a humdrum home. Having experienced the joys of sight-seeing in various smart cities...
View ArticleElectric Vehicle 101
Here's a guide from SGCC that shows how smart cars are connected to grid modernization. Take a look at the guide here.
View Article3 Reasons to Invest in Solar Energy
Now that the interior of your home is fully equipped with nifty smart gadgets, it’s time to spruce up the exterior as well. Recently, solar energy has been all the rave – and for good reason too! The...
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5 Ways Smart Grid is Like a Football Game
Autumn is coming with cooler temps, leaves changing color, pumpkin spiced everything and football season! As you settle in for a new slate of games, consider 5 ways smart grid resembles football. 1....
View ArticleThe Next Innovation
With technological advances and the growing capability to utilize clean renewable energy, the smart grid will offer you, the energy consumer more convenience, savings and choice. Discover how it’s...
View ArticleQuiz: Rate Your Home Energy Knowledge
Smart grid is the application of information technology, tools and techniques like smart meters, sensors, real-time communications, software and remote-controlled equipment into the electrical grid to...
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