Energy and the Google Power Meter

Accroding to the NY Times science section Google is working on a Power Meter that will help us measure and manage our energy consumption to create a "Smart Grid," which has become a sort of buzz phrase within the electric business that references a manifold of ideas about optimizing the efficiency of the energy that we have instead of building more power plants and expanding our consumption.

Google's Power Meter seeks to empower consumers with access to their personal energy information allowing people to save as much as 15% on their monthly energy bill. They also say that for every six houses that save 10% on electricity, it will reduce carbon emissions as much as taking one conventional car off the road.

This may be a solution to IDEO's Big Conversations & Small Talk question, "What is one thing that would persuade you to start saving energy?"



Update: Just found some new resources for this post thanks to @lshen

Simple Explaination of the Google Power Meter


Great video on Google's Smart Grid

Wed, Feb 11, 2009  Permanent link
Categories: energy, google, readingforideas, nytimes

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