The announcement of the Google deal with Kansas City’s electric utilities made the timing of this Breaking Energy webcast particularly serendipitous. Correspondent Margaret Ryan and Managing Editor Peter Gardett discussed the range of technologies electricity firms will be using in their smart grid efforts, and the challenges they face.

We discussed the failed effort of electric utilities to go into broadband a little more than a decade ago, and also mentioned my favorite word of the week: synchrophasor.

For more on this subject, see Margaret’s story “Static On The Line” and check out our other smart grid and technology stories.