Yet these two large software companies did not have many users in the electric power industry, especially any focused on power generation and grid management.
Government-supported initiatives such as UK NetYear and the planned National Grid for Learning have focused on the process of connecting schools to the Internet and providing online materials, rather than on setting lower-rate or free access.
The solar mission in its first phase focused on areas already connected to the grid and had a pricing system that bundled four units of thermal electricity with one unit of solar-based power, which reduced the average per-unit cost of solar electricity.
At an Albert Heijn pilot store in Harlem, customers enter a circular marketplace with soft focused lighting, rather than the neon-lit, grid-like labyrinth of most supermarkets.