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I have a confession to make. When most companies come to me to demo their latest energy management gadget or app, I love them … for about a week. Then my interest fades. I’ve been working on energy efficiency for 20 years and care deeply about the issue, but this raises the question: Is it Continue reading →

A survey from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) found that consumers are interested in saving money through energy efficiency, but many still don’t understand their options for energy management systems. The study found that only 10.2 million of 119 million U.S. households are estimated to be taking advantage of electricity management programs. via CEA finds Continue reading →

Intel has announced a reference design for a home energy-management device, an attempt to get a foothold in the smart grid business and bring Intel’s chips to your kitchen table. At the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco yesterday, Intel Vice President Doug Davis said the design of the tablet-like device, which Intel calls Continue reading →

Energate entered into an agreement with the Ontario Power Authority to be a key delivery partner in the Ontario pilot deployment of residential and small commercial demand response solutions. Energate is a provider of demand response and home energy management solutions for utilities and their customers. via Energate deploys home energy and demand response solution Continue reading →

Smart homes and smart grids are coming, with big players scrambling to meet increasing consumer demand for easy-to-use energy efficiency tools at home. Everyone, it seems, wants to be the first to sell your local utility company on their new energy management system, and the latest is GreenWave Reality. GreenWave’s energy management platform is built around open-standard Internet Continue reading →

Earning energy independence is no longer the headache of the statesmen alone. The masses are equally interested to learn about the ways in which they can reduce energy consumption and cut on their energy budget. In a recent survey, international research firm Parks Associates (News – Alert) has pointed out that, more than 80 percent of U.S. Continue reading →

With technology vendors from small device startups to Microsoft and Google moving into the home energy management (HEM) market, and with governments and utilities investing billions of dollars into smart grid and smart meter deployments, sales of HEM systems will grow rapidly over the next several years. Offering energy information displays (EIDs) and other energy Continue reading →

Microsoft's Hohm website, an online service designed to make it easier for people to figure out how energy efficient their house is (and how to make it better), has become a great deal more useful with the new addition of real estate data. Now, anyone in the US can enter their ZIP code and get Continue reading →

Incenergy LLC, a Smart Grid Demand Management company, and DSI Systems, a distributor of satellite and consumer electronics equipment, announce an exclusive strategic alliance to distribute energy management solutions to homes and small businesses across the US. This alliance allows Incenergy to leverage the mature sales channels and distribution capabilities of DSI Systems when rolling Continue reading →

Smart grid firm GridPoint says it has scored a deal to provide its energy management system to potentially 2,250 United States Postal Service locations in the U.S. USPS needs all the help it can get when it comes to reducing costs, and has been working on reducing energy use in its facilities by 30 percent Continue reading →

Leading Asia Pacific-based provider of network equipment and Smart Grid solutions, Billion Electric Co., Ltd. (Taiex: 3027, trading as Billion), will unveil a full range of Smart Grid solutions, including BPL AMI modules, MV/LV concentrators, energy management solutions like PLC adapter and ZigBee gateway, Cyber Security solutions and industrial smart metering solutions at COMPUTEX TAIPEI Continue reading →

Yitran’s Powerline Communication (PLC) IT700 technology is featured by the Chinese State Grid Corp. in their pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. The pavilion shows Smart Homes and Smart Buildings as part of the smart grid vision and innovations that will be integrated into China’s future. Yitran’s PLC technology is featured in the smart Continue reading →

Google PowerMeter now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provide anyone who signs up access to her home electricity consumption right on her iGoogle homepage. The graph on the right shows how someone could use this information to figure out how much energy is used by different Continue reading →

Intel wants you to take more interest in your energy use but isn’t fussy about how you do it. The chip giant has developed a broad strategy to make money on smart-grid technologies, touching on everything from high-performance computing to simulate the electricity grid to home energy management systems. Its efforts have been relatively low-profile Continue reading →

Dubbed by Time Magazine as the “Best Invention of 2009,”  EnergyHub’s Dashboard which has the rare ability to “rein in the real power hogs” in a user’s home now teams up with GridPoint, Inc., is one of the respected names in smart energy solutions. At DistribuTECH, the two companies announced that GridPoint’s home energy management Continue reading →

NStar, the Boston company that transmits and delivers electricity and natural gas to 1.4 million customers in Eastern and Central Massachusetts, said its Smart Grid pilot program has been approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. NStar also said it will work on the program with a Colorado company called Tendril, which provides energy Continue reading →

The ConnectPort X2 for Smart Energy gateway that connects ZigBee Smart Energy devices from a home area network (HAN) to an energy service provider via broadband has been introduced by Digi International. It is the industry’s first gateway that connects, controls, or gathers data from ZigBee Smart Energy devices equally well before or with smart Continue reading →

Control4, a provider of IP-based home control systems, said that the Control4 Energy Management System 100 (EMS 100) has received a 2009 SmartGrid.TMCnet.com Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corp. (TMC) and Intelligent Communications Partners. According to Company officials, the Control4 EMS 100 is a platform that is designed to enable consumers and Continue reading →

Sustainability and energy management are more than green issues driven by social responsibility. They are becoming economic imperatives in industry and manufacturing. “Smart grid” can help achieve both objectives. Manufacturing is trying to recover from one of the deepest downturns in recent history. Consumer spending is down, manufacturing plants have closed, and personnel reductions are Continue reading →

Digi International (Nasdaq: DGII) today introduced the ConnectPort(R) X2 for Smart Energy gateway. It is a ZigBee Smart Energy certified gateway that easily connects certified ZigBee Smart Energy devices from a Home Area Network (HAN) to an energy service provider via broadband. It is the industry’s first gateway that connects, controls, or gathers data from Continue reading →