2009Oct8: Sweden becomes the first country in which every customer has a smart meter installed in their home (Economist.com). The Swedish government made smart meters mandatory beginning in July 2009 (EE Times).
Reference: Economist.com http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14586006; EE Times http://eetimes.eu/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500045
Image Description: Water Tower of Trollhättan, Sweden. Photo by Thomas Pettersson, 2003Dec6. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trollhattans_Vattentorn.jpg Image Permission: The copyright holder of this work, hereby releases it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
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