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Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:00 AM

The World’s Coolest Utility: Yello Strom’s Got Smart Meters That Tweet

Updated: More than any utility on the planet, Germany’s Yello Strom has embraced the intertwining of energy and home broadband connections. The company manages its smart meter service directly via its customers’ broadband connection; it’s the first European utility to offer its customers access to Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter; and it tells us this week that it has developed a prototype application that will enable its smart meters to tweet its customers’ energy consumption.
Katie Fehrenbacher

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