Is broadband over power lines going to hit regulatory walls from state and local officials?
I don’t know, but I have seen a number of the broadband over power line experiments, and the technology appears to work. There are obviously people who are concerned about interference. What people have to understand is that there is already radio interference that comes from existing power lines. The broadband over power line technologies that I have seen actually limit the unwanted emissions from the power line. If there is interference of particular channels, they can be filtered out. Our Office of Engineering and Technology is working to make sure that broadband over power line does not create unacceptable radio interference issues. I’ve talked to some state regulators who are very bullish on this, because they see it as a way to reduce the cost of operation, begin to cap cost increases and begin to manage the need for new electric generation plans to meet spikes in demand. When we were in California in July, we took a look at the trial that AT&T and PG&E are running. Some of the P
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