Comments on: Can Apple make Home Energy Management sexy?

By: Jan Roos

Jan Roos — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:04:59 +0000

Interesting. So Apple wants to introduce powerline communications to integrate and control energy consumption around the house. Man that reminds me of when we used to watch The Jetson’s! Iove technology.

By: iPod team lead founds company to make home energy management sexy – GreenMonk: the blog

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:04:22 +0000

[...] January of 2010 Apple launched the iPad and I wrote a post here asking if Apple could make home energy management sexy. I speculated that because Apple had lodged patent applications for a Home Energy Management [...]

By: If Utilities don’t step up their customer communications, they risk their considerable smart grid investments – GreenMonk: the blog

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:30:43 +0000

[...] have written lots of times over the years about the need for utilities to improve their communications – it’s nice now to see the [...]

By: phil evans

phil evans — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:42:01 +0000

Of course. But is Apple really in the market of wanting to be a frantic tree hugger? I doubt it. Lean and cool I think is their message. Leave the corporates to be mindful of the eco-luvvies that want to do this. Let Apple’s core energy consumption be more important.

By: lee

lee — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:12:14 +0000

One of the best results for Energy Management is Voltage Optimisation.

By: Andy Shrader

Andy Shrader — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:36:08 +0000

One of the so-called problems with electric vehicles is teaching consumers to change their ways and get them to plug in their cars, not when they get home from work, when the energy grid is the most over-used and the most expensive, but later on in the evening, which is inconvenient and probably absurd. However, a smart grid plug-in can start charging the car later in the evening, when power use is down. This type of innovation should be able to enable many more sustainable changes across the technology spectrum.
Bonus points to Apple.

By: Richard Patterson

Richard Patterson — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:50:13 +0000

Managing energy demand has to be a comprehensive system, it has to control very many points of drain to ground, it has to be highly automated and integrated, it has to learn, it has to extensible as to spawn new businesses, and it has to be as easy as thoughtless, because not everybody for the reasonable future is going to be enamored by the early twenty-first century gadgets that now tickle our chinny-chin-chins, or may prefer human sensuality for “sexy.” Personally, I though CB radio was the hounds tooth. “Chchhch. This is Cracker Jack. Hey Honey Dew, you left your headlights on. Thchhch.”

By: Can Apple make Home Energy Management sexy? — GreenMonk: the blog « Earth4energy

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:52:54 +0000

[...] Today found this great post, here is a quick excerpt : Unlike Google and Microsoft though, Apple have an amazing track record of making sexy devices/applications. If there is anyone who can make home energy management sexy, it would be Apple software running on the iPad. … Read the rest of this great post Here [...]