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Carl Imhoff: We expect by 2050, in about 40 years, for the demand for electricity in the United States to double.

You're listening to Carl Imhoff, an electrical engineer with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, located in Washington State. [---1---] The goal is to modernize the electric grid in the U.S. into what's being called a 'smart grid.'

Carl Imhoff: [---2---] The grid that you look at today hasn't changed much really in the last 50 years.

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Carl Imhoff: For every unit of electricity that we get, we have to use three units of energy to get it, just because of the inefficiencies in combustion at the power plant and then moving it over the wires to where you can actually use it. So the quickest way for us to reduce energy use and to reduce energy imports, etc is to improve the efficiency of our overall end-use activities.

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Imhoff's research is part of a multi-billion dollar effort, paid for with both public and private dollars. The smart grid refers to taking advantage of the new digital age and bringing it to the electric infrastructure. Imhoff said homes and businesses on the smart grid will have new meters that constantly communicate electrical use via the internet with utility companies. On a website, consumers can see how much energy they use at any given moment, even at night, and they can turn things off if they want to save on their bills.