The 131, 000-home smart grid test it is runnning in Illinois will offer customers a variety of dynamic pricing options, with the goal of understanding which options customers feel most comfortable with.
Founded in 2000, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. is an industry-led initiative with 70 member companies that creates specifications and certification logo programs for using the power lines for reliable home networking and Smart Grid applications.
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It was the German's first pole in five races and only the second time he has started a Grand Prix in first place on the grid in his home country.
Swiping from the home screen through the app grid was smooth, and in fact, all the graphical transitions we saw -- from the unlock screen to opening various apps -- were quite fluid as well.
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The home screen is still just a grid of static icons that launch apps.
One, in particular, made him feel the smart grid might even enter the home before the decade was out.
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It's still a three-element UI, with a central home screen showing running applications, an app grid, and the BlackBerry hub -- a feed of time sensitive notifications from email, calendar, BBM, social apps and more.
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While this may come off as a bit schizophrenic, the tandem launcher is particularly helpful in Claystone's current state, as it takes an inappropriate amount of time to scroll through the 3 x 3 grid of application icons on the home screen.
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Alonso heads into Renault's home Grand Prix on the second row of the grid along with Toyota's Jarno Trulli.
AutoGrid, based in Palo Alto, develops software that crunches data collected by the smart meters at each home or business and by sensors placed throughout the electric grid.
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If every home in the U.S. got with the program, Ford explains, it would be like taking every home in California, New York and Texas off the grid.
The bill would allow for the early payment of the winter fuel allowance to people whose homes are not connected to the mains gas grid and whose principal source of fuel is home fuel oil, liquid petroleum gas or propane gas.
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"Obviously we wouldn't want people to ignore it but people should call the fire brigade or the National Grid if they believe the smell is coming from their own home, " a spokeswoman said.
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Equipped with charging stations at home and at the shopping mall, these cars would be able to run on grid electricity for short trips.
Vettel's second success of the season leaves him 25 points behind world championship leader Jenson Button -- who disappointed the home fans by finishing down in sixth place, the position he started from on the grid.
William Dunlop led Michael after that but William did not appear on the grid for the re-run later in the day, leaving Michael to come home from Darren Burns, who is returning to racing after his serious crash at last year's North West 200.
Home appliances, meters, transformers and generators could all share data and work together to make the power grid more efficient, for example by lowering the peak load.
That's because this grid -- which is made up of everything from power lines to generators to the meters in your home -- still runs on century-old technology.
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As you'll see in the video clips after the break, the home screen here shares some similarities with Windows Phone 8's counterpart -- in the way items snap to grid and resize, even though the former is enhanced by plenty of bouncy animation, more colors and funny sounds (designed by Japanese musician Cornelius).
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