Could Google become your next power company?

On a recent day in a conference room of funk-modern furniture and floor-to-ceiling windows, Todd Pedersen, Vivint's founder, chief executive officer and seer-in-chief, had come to explain how he's steered what had been a burglar-alarm company into the electricity business, by plugging into the rooftop solar and digital energy-management revolutions. If you're a utility industry executive, you might want to take a good look at him. With more than 800,000 North American customers, Vivint is in the vanguard of what might be called Technarians at the Gate -- tech, cable, even phone companies -- that have begun to cast a covetous eye on the utility industry's customers and revenue by exploiting the portals that they already have into tens of millions of American homes. Comcast Corp. with a pilot project to sell electricity with its cable packages;

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