What is CURRENT doing with TXU?
In December 2005, TXU Electric Delivery, a subsidiary of TXU Corp., and CURRENT announced an agreement to transform TXU Electric Delivery’s power distribution network into the nation’s first broadband-enabled Smart Grid. Through Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology overlaid on the existing electric distribution network, this network will serve the majority of TXU Electric Delivery’s service area, including more than two million homes and businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and other Texas communities. This will be the first multipurpose Smart Electric Grid created by deploying a single BPL network which can be leveraged to enhance electric power delivery and to enable commercial broadband communications services, answering the federal government call for a 21 st-century electric network as specified in the recent passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and increased access to the Internet for all Americans. Since announcing the partnership, CURRENT and TXU Electric Delivery
