From USC, UCLA & JPL
It quietly has cooked along and many more milestones must be passed before it realizes its promise. But what makes more smarts than putting some of the city's smartest folks together to find smarter ways to tap the best available technology to conserve power at some of the smartest but biggest energy-consuming spots in Los Angeles? The Trojans, Bruins and researchers in La Canada, of course, not only are among this metropolis' biggest employers, they also are some of the biggest customers for the city's Department of Water and Power. Which is why DWP and the trio, with the help of the feds, have committed to creating a Smart Grid project -- an ambitious, complex effort to save energy as soon as the many expectable bureaucratic hurdles to the plan can be overcome allowing the actual work to get under way. The DWP overseers just blessed the project, which still needs the OK by the City Council. A Trojan official calls the effort one of the most challenging and rewarding he has worked on in his career.
