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The Consumer Electronics Show is partly a playground for inventors and partly a glimpse into what technologies consumers will actually adopt in the next few years. Into the first category fall gyro-stabilized electric unicycles, a human-powered hydrofoil and 3-D pet portraits. It seems that home energy management, on the other hand, has finally landed in Continue reading →

According to Greenbiz’s Michael Ellis, the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) featured a wide assortment of home energy management systems. As Ellis put it, “the home energy management ecosystem is rife with competition across the entire value chain, creating a range of viable solutions for consumers”. Savant Systems is just one company among many to Continue reading →

Realizing full benefits from a smart grid ultimately means controlling devices in customers’ homes, businesses, and other facilities. But who should exercise that control, and how? via How should home energy management networks be controlled? — Cleantech News and Analysis.

Just last month, Greentech Media speculated that Trilliant’s home energy platform and slew of partnerships with home energy management companies was ripe for the U.K. utility market. We were right, mostly. via Trilliant Plans a British Home Invasion : Greentech Media.

Maybe Best Buy can make sense of the smart grid for consumers. The electronics retailer today is launching a push into home energy management products through dedicated zones at three stores and an online home energy “learning center.” The company will announce the plan at the BSR conference on corporate sustainability and begin product demos Continue reading →

Freescale Semiconductor FSL -2.26% announced that it is collaborating with Qualcomm Atheros to demonstrate home energy management using the Smart Energy Profile 2.0 over Wi-Fi, Ethernet and HomePlug(R) Green PHY (HomePlug GP) standard. The technology was demonstrated at the Metering, Billing/CRM Europe event this week. via Freescale Collaborates with Qualcomm Atheros to Advance Home Energy Continue reading →

Over and over again, studies show that consumers reduce their energy consumption when they can tie their usage to a dollar amount. And over and over again, consumers shrug their shoulders when they look at their electric bills and say, “I have no idea how to really know what I’m consuming.” And though some of Continue reading →

Vivint, one of the largest home automation companies in North America, is partnering with Tendril, the provider of the cloud platform for the Energy Internet, to connect Vivint Go!Control smart home devices with Tendril’s home energy management technology. via Utah Business | Articles.

EnergyHub is going to see if it can pique consumer interest in the smart grid without utilities. The Brooklyn-based company plans to start selling a relatively high-end home energy management system next month from its Web site, its first effort to bypass utility or cable company channels. For the residential energy business as a whole, Continue reading →

As electric utilities strive to reduce peak demand and provide consumers with a powerful set of energy efficiency tools as part of their smart grid initiatives, the home energy management (HEM) market is beginning to take shape. HEM vendors are seeking to be “the face” of the smart grid by providing consumers with actionable energy Continue reading →

Providing smart energy software to the utility industry, Bit Stew Systems launched its groundbreaking Grid Director 2.0 Platform, thus deploying the next generation Smart Grid Management and Visualization platform. Built on the core Grid Director 2.0 Platform, the four distinct modules including AMI Deployment and Management, Demand Response 3.0, Home Energy Management, and Revenue Protection, Continue reading →

AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power, has selected Control4, a provider of IP-based home control systems, to improve customer experiences with home energy management. Control4 makes it possible for virtually any appliance or device in a home to intelligently communicate with another—from locks to lights, doors to drapes. via AEP Ohio Selects Control4 Continue reading →

Intel announced a reference design for a home energy-management device at the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco. With this device, the company aims to find firm footing in the smart grid business and bring their chips to your kitchen table. According to Intel’s Vice President Doug Davis, the chip giant has designed this Continue reading →

Energate (www.energateinc.com) a leading provider of demand response and home energy management solutions for utilities and their consumers, today announced successful in-home results of an FM-RDS (Radio Data System) based utility residential load control solution. Energate confirmed a development partnership with e-Radio, Inc, a provider of wireless communications networks and manufacturer of FM/RDS-based receiver modules that Continue reading →

Can the consumer-friendly brand of GE put a face on the smart grid? The industrial giant on Tuesday introduced two products–a home energy management system and electric vehicle charger–which are some of the most tangible aspects of what GE CEO Jeff Immelt on Tuesday called digital energy. The products were announced in tandem with a Continue reading →

Just three weeks after partnering with Cisco Systems to fast-track development of a state-of-the-art electric smart grid, Duke Energy has signed a new agreement with Cisco to pilot and further develop a smart grid-enabled home energy management solution. The goal is to provide Duke Energy customers with secure and reliable energy information and a simple-to-use Continue reading →

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) and Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) have signed an agreement to pilot and further develop a smart grid-enabled home energy management solution to provide Duke Energy customers with home energy use information. The announcement corresponds with the unveiling this week of Cisco’s Home Energy Management Solution, which features a proprietary Home Energy Controller Continue reading →

Networking company Cisco got into the home energy management sector this week as it unveiled a new in-home energy management device along with connected services that, when used in conjunction with utilities, “help consumers securely and reliably gain insight into, and easier control over, their energy use.” It also wasted no time in immediately finding Continue reading →

Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced a home energy management system, which it will test with customers of utility Duke Energy and which it plans to offer to other utilities. The two companies said that Cisco will supply a home energy “controller,” a countertop touch-screen display that allows people to monitor electricity usage and to program Continue reading →

PassivSystems has today launched PassivEnergy, a unique home energy management system that can reduce household energy use by up to 18 per cent, a saving of £214.92 on the average household energy bill of £1,194. PassivEnergy optimises a home’s energy use, learning when it needs to use energy and when it needs to save it. Continue reading →