Brave or Foolish - San Diego Set to Deploy Millions of Smart Meters

While this earth2tech article focuses most of its attention on the wireless options and plans being considered by San Diego Gas & Electric, it's the number of smart meters they plan to install over the next 2 years that caught my eye:

1.4 million

Pilots need to get larger, there's no doubt about it. But that's a lot of money in devices and installation services fees. And a heck of a lot of dough down the drain if the technology choices are found less than prescient a few years down the road. Here's the whole piece.

IEE Maps out Smart Grid progress

See how your state is doing versus the rest on the Smart Grid incentives map and utility scale smart meter deployment map created by the Institute for Electric Efficiency.