Comments on: Google Announces First Utility Partners for New PowerMeter http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Google to Start a Green Utility? : CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-6481 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:19:47 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-6481 […] Google has recently launched software to help track and monitor deforestation, it has coordinated with various environmental organizations and climate activists to give us four great Google Earth climate and rainforest tours on youtube, it is working to create more efficient and cost-effective solar thermal technology, and it has unleashed its PowerMeter energy management software. […]

]]> By: ‘Smart Plugs’ (TalkingPlugs) for Your Home : CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-6480 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:54:55 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-6480 […] PowerMeter can monitor home energy usage in great detail but it generally requires that an electrician install […]

]]> By: Timothy B. Hurst http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-6479 Wed, 27 May 2009 02:12:38 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-6479 Chris, you’re absolutely right. It’s all about demand-side monitoring and control. Let us see how much energy costs and when. Even with some sort of carbon tax, let us pay the true cost of our energy use and let us see it. I guarantee you we can use less without sacrificing our standard of living.

]]> By: Timothy B. Hurst http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-22937 Wed, 27 May 2009 02:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-22937 Chris, you’re absolutely right. It’s all about demand-side monitoring and control. Let us see how much energy costs and when. Even with some sort of carbon tax, let us pay the true cost of our energy use and let us see it. I guarantee you we can use less without sacrificing our standard of living.

]]> By: Timothy B. Hurst http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-22938 Wed, 27 May 2009 02:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-22938 Chris, you’re absolutely right. It’s all about demand-side monitoring and control. Let us see how much energy costs and when. Even with some sort of carbon tax, let us pay the true cost of our energy use and let us see it. I guarantee you we can use less without sacrificing our standard of living.

]]> By: Timothy B. Hurst http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-22939 Wed, 27 May 2009 02:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-22939 Chris, you’re absolutely right. It’s all about demand-side monitoring and control. Let us see how much energy costs and when. Even with some sort of carbon tax, let us pay the true cost of our energy use and let us see it. I guarantee you we can use less without sacrificing our standard of living.

]]> By: Chris Kaiser http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-6478 Tue, 26 May 2009 22:09:29 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-6478 The Google power meter is a huge step in the right direction, but it is only going to be available to a select number of people, mainly those whose utilities are installing smart meter.

Everyone else will have to rely on other methods of whole home monitoring, but they are fairly easy to find. I’ve written about several on the Mapawatt Blog.

Whether you are able to use the Google Meter or not, monitoring is one of most vital steps to getting control over your home energy use.

Having one the most respected technology companies in the world realize that speaks volumes!

]]> By: Chris Kaiser http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-22936 Tue, 26 May 2009 22:09:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-22936 The Google power meter is a huge step in the right direction, but it is only going to be available to a select number of people, mainly those whose utilities are installing smart meter.

Everyone else will have to rely on other methods of whole home monitoring, but they are fairly easy to find. I’ve written about several on the Mapawatt Blog.

Whether you are able to use the Google Meter or not, monitoring is one of most vital steps to getting control over your home energy use.

Having one the most respected technology companies in the world realize that speaks volumes!

]]> By: russ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-6477 Sun, 24 May 2009 08:41:28 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-6477 To the best of my knowledge Reliance Energy in India is a generator – not a utility servicing the end customer.

]]> By: russ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-utility-partners-for-new-powermeter/#comment-22935 Sun, 24 May 2009 08:41:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2578#comment-22935 To the best of my knowledge Reliance Energy in India is a generator – not a utility servicing the end customer.

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