Most homes already have a smart meter that digitally communicates with the electric grid. If you're looking to get rooftop solar panels, a smart meter is an essential piece of equipment. Here's why.

Customers who add solar panels to their homes may be surprisedwhen the utility takes their brand-new, computerized “smart meter”off their house and installs an old-school meter with a ...

At peak hours during this week's heat wave, solar panels on homes, businesses, parking lots and alongside roads are helping ...

The Lgate 120 product announced by Locus today seems to resolve this dilemma.. The new hardware is a socket meter with built-in cellular and Ethernet connectivity that also integrates with ...

The meters have catalog numbers MC2442S1200SC and MC2442S1200FC. They were made from August 2021 through August 2022. The catalog number and date stamp can be found inside the meter’s front panel.

Locus Energy has patched 100,000 of its residential and commercial power meters that were vulnerable to command injection attacks and code execution.

Solar Analytics chief executive Stefan Jarnason is also waiting on a smart meter. "We've determined for the average person, it's costing them over $500 a year in lost revenue," Mr Jarnason said.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the recall of more than 3,900 Siemens SolarReady Meter Combos. The meters were sold from August 2021 through April 2024 for between $640 and $990.