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Rhode Island Energy is installing 540,000 new smart electric meters across the state to modernize the power grid.

The new meters provide customers with near real-time data on their electricity usage, accessible through an online account.

Smart meters automatically alert the company to power outages, which is expected to speed up response times.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Mike Hayes is a self-confessed data geek, so it’s probably not so surprising that, in the middle of a heat wave in July, he started thinking about how much energy his air conditioners were using.

If it had been a few days earlier, he would have had to keep on wondering, but Hayes had just had a new smart electric meter installed at the home he shares with his wife Ruth on a leafy cul-de-sac in Wakefield.

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