Four big reasons to get behind the smart grid

http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2009/02/smart_grid_it.html

With venture capital flooding in and stimulus money on the way, the smart grid is taking shape -- and the business world stands to benefit.  Energy is the life-blood of commerce. The smart grid -- an intelligent electricity-delivery system drawing significant interest from the U.S. government, venture capital investors, startup companies, and established tech giants, including IBM, Cisco, GE, and Google -- promises to make that energy flow more freely, more reliably, more efficiently, and at lower costs to both consumers and businesses.