Smart meters are letting people take control of their energy use - and energy bills - to a new level. It doesn't matter if you live in a studio apartment or 30-room mansion. By tracking when and how you use electricity at home, smart meters help you identify ways you can waste less energy and that translates into more money in your bank account and a cleaner planet.

Learn more about how smart energy helping guarantee America's future by getting energy usage under control, today.

Key Facts

• Enables easy-to-use tools like simple online displays of energy use and prices and set-and-forget home energy management tools
• Facilitates broad-scale electric vehicle charging so that reliable, low-cost ways to recharge it anytime, anywhere exist
• Will generate tens of thousands of smart grid related jobs over the next decade
• Real-time pricing information helped consumers reduce their electricity costs 10% on average and their peak consumption by 15%

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