HIGH SPEED INTERNET/SMART GRID

Advanced internet technologies, energy management and the smart grid are coming together in an unlikely location: a mid-sized city in the South.










Chattanooga, Tennessee, utility EPB hit two milestones in the last two weeks of 2010: It completed the final touches on one of the fastest internet pipelines in the world, and it activated the first automated switches on its electricity network. The combination constitutes the backbone for a Department of Energy–funded smart grid network that’s expected to save the utility and area businesses tens of millions of dollars annually. Wired