Dec 22 2009
TechNet released a new poll result that revealed an increasing number of Americans support their utilities offering them technologies for smart metering and home energy management, which are considered to be vital requirements to create a national energy Smart Grid. TechNet is a bipartisan political network of CEOs that is involved in enhancing the growth of the innovation economy.
Jim Hawley, Acting CEO of TechNet, remarked that cutting-edge innovations are supported by the Americans as it helps them to use energy in an efficient way, which will enable them to save money on their electricity bills. The poll results highlight the fact that Americans prefer to save their energy costs through the use of appropriate technology.
About 77 percent of the Americans expect their utility to enable them to reduce the consumption of energy and 74 percent of them are planning to change their energy use through the provision of new technology solutions since this will bring about reductions in their electricity bills. About 88 percent of the Americans expect their utility companies to make an investment in new technologies.
TechNet for the past four years has supported a number of policies to encourage a green innovation nurtured by visionary entrepreneurship. Through these policies, TechNet aims at addressing environmental, energy and economic challenges and to expand the nation’s Smart Grid and other supporting policies.
TechNet and its member companies are of the opinion that reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, low electricity bills and improvement in the nation’s economic growth can be achieved through clever deployment of clean energy technologies and cutting edge innovation. In the beginning of the year 2009, a number of policy prescriptions from TechNet were included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create new green technologies, new efficiencies and a new smart grid.