FCC Broadband Plan Goal: Use Broadband to Manage Energy Consumption

Nice. How forward thinking is the FCC? They are about to release their "Broadband Plan" next week and one of the items in it is:

"To ensure that America leads in the clean energy economy, every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption."

There are a ton of companies in Colorado that are developing technologies to monitor your home's energy consumption and to make the grid smarter. This move by the FCC to expedite energy efficiency in the U.S. via broadband is good news.