News-Leader: A City Utilities (CU) SmartGrid will save ratepayers money. It will tie into national and state electrical SmartGrids being planned by the president and the governor. Ratepayers save money; CU saves money; the state saves money and our nation saves money. Google and General Electric have announced technology that allows each consumer to know exactly how their electricity is being used; how much that is costing and what they can do to save money. This requires data communications …