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Article: Whirlpool Corporation To Produce One Million Smart Grid-Compatible Clothes Dryers by the End of 2011.
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- September 28, 2009
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BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Whirlpool Corporation continues its legacy of innovation leadership with the announcement that it will produce one million Smart Energy clothes dryers by the end of 2011 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant program.
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These U.S. manufactured appliances will be capable of reacting intelligently to signals from the smart grid by modifying their energy consumption to save consumers money on their home electric bills. In markets where utilities offer variable or time-of-use pricing, these dryers ...