Courtesy of The Smart Grid News, an interesting look at Intel’s newly released Intelligent Home Energy Management software and some speculation that perhaps Intel is joining Smart Grid latecomers Google, Microsoft, Apple and Cisco in a bid to dominate the market or even to make utilities obsolete. More importantly, however, is the author’s impassioned plea […]
Read more »Courtesy of Earth2Tech, an interesting report on the fact that utility customers of the future – enabled by smart meters, grids, and especially markets – will “…no longer be a passive recipient of a bill, but an active partner in managing energy consumption and cost.” However, given the poor results of early smart meter deployments, […]
Read more »Via Smart Grid News, a report on whether the future vision of electrical energy – the Smart Grid – introduce issues of Energy Equity unseen in today’s utility-based society. We note this article as it – again – indicates the coming importance of imparting “ownership” of these heretofore hard to capture resources (i.e. water molecules […]
Read more »A number of recent articles and initiatives that – thankfully – put the focus back on consumers as critical actors in the evolution of the smart meter-smart grid-smart market ecosystem. First, courtesy of Earth2Tech, a report that Google has released the API (application programming interface) for its energy tool PowerMeter. As the article notes: “…Opening […]
Read more »Via The Houston Chronicle, a recap of one individual’s experiences with a smart meter. As with earlier posts on this subject, the conclusion is that – without an opportunity to act or transact – the meter becomes little more than an idle curiosity that quickly loses any clear association with utility. Smart markets anyone? As […]
Read more »Courtesy of Earth2Tech, an interesting report on the tepid uptake thus far of Google’s web-based energy tool, PowerMeter. As frequent visitors to this blog will note, we do not find these results surprising. After all, data and information without a purpose or use, rarely seems compelling to the consumers. Now if Google had a way […]
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