Energy
2:55 pm
Thu October 25, 2012

$178 Million Smart Grid Project Launches In Northwest

Credit KUOW Photo/Ashley Ahearn
Jamie Rowe, a graduate student at the University of Washington, shows Senator Maria Cantwell how personal energy monitoring technology works.

The University of Washington got its launch Wednesday as the country's biggest testing ground for smart grid technology.

Smart grid is a catch-all term for something power providers are still trying to figure out — namely, how do you use modern technology, like the Internet, to manage how much power is flowing through the grid at any given time?

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