When Michael Murray was a student at Oberlin College, he liked to walk to each dorm, read the electrical meters, and plot the biggest consumers on a Web site. This was the most scientific way, he explained, to find the greenest residents with the greatest devotion to minimizing energy usage.
Today, he’s the chief executive for Lucid Design Group, a company that aims to automate — and greatly expand — that analysis. Every minute, his server collects energy consumption rates from buildings around the country, comparing their consumption against historical data and plotting it on a dashboard…
“The research suggests that the more immediate the feedback, the more effective it will be,” Mr. Murray explained. “The once-a-month bill is a pretty poor motivator.”
via An Energy Dashboard for Buildings – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com.
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