LA applies for $200m smart grid stimulus funding

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power seeking financing for rollout of more than one million smart meter devices

The largest urban utility company in the US has become the latest in a long line to apply for federal government stimulus funding to speed up the creation of a smart metering system for use by its domestic...

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