Everyone is starting to come together. Photo via eflon We’d hoped to start seeing some progress by summer, and it looks like the first 16 smart grid standards have been announced by the U.S. Departments of Energy and Commerce, marking the slow

arrival of standardization that is necessary to get a national smart grid up and running. The new standards cover a range of smart grid technologies, from smart meters to

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First Batch of Smart Grid Standards Announced