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Can Apple make Home Energy Management sexy?

by Tom Raftery on January 28, 2010 · 15 comments

in energy efficiency

Will Apple move into home energy management, and if they do, can they make it sexy and front-of-mind for everyone?
I made this point in a reply to a post earlier on the IBM Global Eco Jam and I thought it could well do with being fleshed out to a full post here to see what [...]

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There’s gold in them thar bills!

by Tom Raftery on October 21, 2009 · 17 comments

in demand response

Photo credit Urban Jacksonville
The output from smart meters is incredibly granular. Far more so than is obvious from the smart meter output graph above.
In conversations with Dr Monica Sturm (Director of Siemen’s Center of Competence, Metering Services) last November (2008) she confirmed to me that it is possible to identify individual devices in someone’s [...]

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Jonathan Gay, CTO Greenbox, talks home energy management

by Tom Raftery on March 3, 2009 · 4 comments

in demand response

With Google’s announcement of their PowerMeter, home energy management solutions are really going mainstream.
With that in mind, I wanted to have a chat with Jonathan Gay, the founder and CTO of Greenbox (not CEO as I said in the intro – d’oh!). Greenbox have been one of the pioneering companies in this space and they [...]

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