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18
SMART We plan to meet 50 percent or more of the
growth in energy demand in PG&E’s service area over
the next decade through driving smarter energy use.
This includes giving customers the tools and informa-
tion to better manage their energy use, fi nding ways to
advance more effi cient technologies, and changing energy
use patterns to provide major advantages in the effort to
reduce environmental impacts.
Last year, for example, we announced
our intention to upgrade the high-tech
gas and electric meters we are currently
installing for all customers. The digital
communications capabilities in the new
devices create opportunities to provide the
information and incentives customers need
to be more effi cient. It also will provide
them unprecedented control, with the ability to remotely
operate appliances or set their thermostat. Combined with
new pricing options, this technology can substantially
cut peak power demand.
A wealth of similarly promising technologies are under
development today. Helping the best of these break
into the market is one reason PG&E created an Emerging
Technologies Program. PG&E is helping shepherd over
60 different innovations in partnership with leading
PG&E is leading the utility
industry in the drive to
harness energy savings from
computers, and partnered last
year with IBM to signifi cantly
reduce energy use in our
San Francisco Data Center.