The New Golden State of Smart Grid

By Kristen Wright, Associate Editor of Electric Light & Power
Texas keeps swaggering into conversations about who’s doing smart grid right, and for many reasons. Why do smart grid beginnings shine there while they’ve caused headaches and prompted lawsuits elsewhere?

“If you’re talking at the level of the state of Texas, it’s materializing because we have a competitive marketplace,” said Kenny Mercado, senior vice president of smart grid deployment at CenterPoint Energy.