From nwinnovation.com :
“Liberty Lake, Washington-based Itron, a maker of smart electricity and other utility meters, has partnered with Google on its Google PowerMeter program, Google disclosed this morning. (May 20th) According to Google, Itron is the first partnership with a company which is helping to enable implementation of its software, which allows consumers to access and track their energy usage through the Internet. Itron’s meters are being used by one of Google’s first utility partners, San Diego Gas & Electric, which will allow its smart meter customers to access information about their energy usage through the Google PowerMeter widget software. Details on the partnership were not disclosed. ”