| | TVA and Nashville Electric Service plan pilot project using Lucent Technologies' customer communications system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | During the pilot project, interactive energy management, remote meter-reading and real-time pricing services will be provided to NES customers, including 80 apartment units, 60 single-family homes and 10 to 15 commercial/industrial sites. |
 | | The homes of participating residential customers will have electric central heating, air-conditioning and water-heating systems that they will be able to program to operate in response to real-time pricing signals sent by the utility. |
 | | Other trials of the Lucent Customer Connection are in progress or planned by Public Service Electric and Gas in southern New Jersey, Duke Power Company in Charlotte, N.C., and Consolidated Edison Company in New York City. |
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