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The Costs and Benefits of Smart Meters for Residential Customers

June 30, 2011

The Edison Foundation

Ahmad Faruqui, Doug Mitarotonda, Lisa Wood, Adam Cooper, Judith Schwartz

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This paper presents a framework for utilities and regulators to evaluate investments in smart meters and associated enabling technologies from a benefit and cost perspective.

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