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Sticker Shock: EPRI Says Smart Grid Will Cost $165 Billion Over 20 Years
Feb 15th
Feb 15, 2010
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) says the Smart Grid will cost $165 billion over the next 20 years. But, you might ask, what all does that estimate include? And is the price tag something to get that excited about when the same organization said last year that business losses and damages from power interruptions and fluctuations cost the economy about $100 billion?
The coming Smart Grid will be able to do a lot of things: provide reliable, green, secure electricity and a stable energy future for the country. It’s also expected to cost a lot of dollars: about More >
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Loading ...$$$ Boulder SmartGridCity Cost Overruns: How Bad is it Really?
Feb 8th
Feb 8, 2010
From the When Will We Learn file: Xcel is getting consumer pushback for the costs of SmartGridCity, which (according to this report) have been ballooning and should have been better disclosed up front. We believe the pushback will continue until utilities get better at marketing the Smart Grid and its benefits.
Whopping discrepancies in projected and actual costs for Xcel Energy’s Boulder, Colorado, Smart Grid project have caught the state PUC’s attention. Now the regulators want to do what they do: Regulate it.
The Boulder Smart Grid, while unfinished, already has many of the bells and whistles one expects from More >
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