Courtesy of Miller-McCune, an article on software company Opower which thinks it can get consumers to use less electricity by instigating some friendly neighborhood competition. We have oft discussed our skepticism of the long-term fatigue effect of simple information sharing and peer group ranking but, to be fair to the overall smart grid debate, here […]
Read more »Some interesting thoughts on via the Smart Grid Library on how utilities can benefit from consumer data analytics but – of most interest of all – is the fact that it is written from a utility perspective. Its focus is how utilities can benefit from analyzing consumer data – but wouldn’t a better mechanism be […]
Read more »Via Earthtechling, an interesting – but not unsurprising (at least to this blog’s authors) – report on the minimal impact that smart meter use has upon power savings. For without smart markets to actually give people a chance to see real price signals and make informed decisions about how to place value on behavioral changes, […]
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