Courtesy of Triple Pundit, another look at smart meters and whether consumers take advantage of them. As frequent visitors to this blog know, we believe that smart meters are only going to be effective and utilized widely when there are transactive opportunities users can engage in, namely smart markets. As the article notes: “…Smart metering, […]
Read more »Courtesy of Earth2Tech, an article noting an emerging (and long overdue, in our mind) emphasis on consumers and a forecast that 2010 will see the emergence of the consumer energy management market. We applaud this trend, but still maintain that consumers will want a transactive opportunity to capitalize on the information that will soon be […]
Read more »Via Green Monk, a report asking how long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters? According to the article, consumers’ active interest in receiving more information about their energy and water usage and – with the value that this data has – we may see Home Management software that will manage water […]
Read more »A trio of interesting articles to review in this post, all pertaining to smart meters and customers interactions with such. As all three articles note, meters themselves may not change/incent/motivate behavior and, as the first report notes, the information may actually cause people to use more – not less – power. In that case, information […]
Read more »Three interesting articles and analyses this week on various aspects of smart meters and the – mostly failed thus far – need/attempt to captivate consumers. As KnowledgeProblem points out, home energy innovation is still the goal of many, especially the deregulated markets such as Texas where Direct Energy recently introduced a home energy management system: […]
Read more »Courtesy of Earth2Tech, a forecast from Pike Research that the smart grid market will bring in $200 billion in worldwide investment between 2008 and 2015. Out of that total investment, annual smart grid global revenues will grow to $35 billion in 2013 from about $10 billion in 2009. As the article notes: “…Pike Research says […]
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