Googling Your Home Electricity Usage
by Miguel Helft for the New York Times
If people knew how much electricity they are using every time they turn on the lights, fire up the oven or lower the thermostat on their air conditioner, they would make smarter decisions about their energy use, and presumably, conserve more.
That’s the idea behind a prototype service that Google unveiled on February 10, 2009 which New York Times reporters Matthew Wald and Miguel Helft wrote about in on February 10, 2009.
The service, which will be called Google PowerMeter, will allow users to measure their energy use in real time. It one of many new consumer products that would-be enabled by so-called “smart grid” technologies, and it is one of Google many new initiatives in the energy area.
Google is unveiling the prototype for PowerMeter well before it has a functioning product available as a way to attract partners to its endeavor. The company also hopes that the announcement will bolster its own advocacy efforts at the state and federal levels in support of policies and investments that would promote the development of a smart grid.
Read the whole story here:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/googling-your-home-electricity-usage/?hp
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