Yes. The example you provided is certainly a solution, and it's a solution that's made possible by bidirectional flow of information between the consumers of energy—the buildings—and the providers of energy, such as a natural gas utility, an electricity utility or whatever it is that the energy is coming from.
The opportunities that moving toward a smart grid economy provides are just endless. “Smart grid” is a term, but what it is implying, what it means is greater communication between energy-consuming devices within a system. Within a building, that could be the Internet of things, where you have appliances that already have built into them the ability to talk to one another. We aren't doing that a whole lot yet, but we have products that can.
It's about taking the building systems and all of the different pieces of building systems that are needed in order to provide the right temperature and the right level of humidity—the right kinds of conditions to ensure good thermal comfort and good indoor environmental quality in a space—and having them not only communicate with one another within the building system but across to other systems with the appliances outside of the building, such as the utilities, which may have different needs when they're starting to balance the loads across their entire portfolio and their entire system.
These things are on the horizon, and the horizon isn't that far away. In fact, the changes are happening now. You've given an example. That's a real-life example right now. The models that we will see about how buildings are interacting with these other energy systems are being developed, so I'm not surprised if the utility serving that particular building that you described may be providing an incentive for that building operator or building owner to share their load information in order to control those loads at a larger level and ensure stability across the entire system.
We might be seeing more of that. We might see other ways of encouraging and incentivizing to motivate that interaction between energy systems. Changes are happening, and they're happening right now. That's the exciting thing about it. The important thing is that we recognize that these changes are occurring; that we prepare ourselves to be able to take advantage of the opportunities and to be ready; and that when policy needs to be put in place and regulation needs to be formed and we need to be involved, we do it in a productive way that's helping the small businesses, helping the homeowner and benefiting all the parts that are involved with these changes.