Abstract: A system operates to control the energizing and deenergizing of energy-utilizing loads at facilities remote from each other. A transmitter, remote from each of the facilities, transmits signals carrying a plurality of time multiplexed channels of information to a communication and control terminal at each of the facilities. The communication and control terminal, in response, generates time-multiplexed signals, representative of the information in such channels. The time-multiplexed channel information in the generated signals is stored in a shift register, one bit per channel; and a channel selector for each of a number of load networks in a facility, couples a bit in the shift register to a relay control. The relay control controls a switch which, in response to the selected channel, couples electrical power to and decouples such power from the associated network. Other channels or the same channel, in analogous fashion, can be coupled to other load networks at each facility.