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 →
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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 →
Big box retailer Lowe’s has jumped into the smart energy home biz, an overcrowded market that has already seen failed efforts by Microsoft, Google and Cisco. But Lowe’s entry into home energy management, which follows Best Buy’s move into the sector last November, might prove more meaningful and ultimately more successful than the Internet and networking Continue reading →
Japan’s Toshiba Corp said on Monday it plans to enter the smart home energy market in the United States at the end of this year and generate 10 billion yen ($129.68 million) in revenue by the fiscal year ending March, 2016. via Toshiba to enter U.S. smart home energy market | Technology | Reuters.
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.
A host of smart meter solutions providers in the UK have teamed up to create an interoperability group that they claim could allow households in the country see combined savings of £938m ($1.47bn) per year. The interoperability group has been launched by global smart grid communications firm Trilliant, and aims to unify multiple home energy Continue reading →
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.
PG&E plans to start testing home energy gadgets and software starting in March 2012 with a small group of customers, according to plans the utility unveiled details of this week. PG&E plans to work with its smart grid network provider, Silver Spring Networks, for the software part of its home energy trial. For the initial Continue reading →
The Nevada utility NV Energy plans to roll out one of the first demand-response programs in the U.S. that will use home energy gadgets and smart thermostats in consumers’ homes, reports Smart Grid News. NV Energy will be providing its customers with a home energy dashboard from Control4 and a programmable thermostat, and the utility Continue reading →
At a Broadband Breakfast roundtable last week, AT&T Executive Jeffery Dygert let slip that plans are afoot within the company to enter the home energy monitoring business. This move seems to follow on from AT&Ts partnership with E3 Greentech earlier this year, along with its acquisition of home automation specialist Xanboo in 2010, and would complement the Smart Grid Continue reading →
In an effort to help customers “demystify technology,” Best Buy is the latest company trying to get consumers amped about saving energy in their homes. Earlier this month the electronics giant launched its two-pronged Home Energy Concept. The Concept includes the opening of three pilot programs within stores in Texas, California and Illinois. Special demonstration areas provide a space for Continue reading →
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) today launched its Home Energy™ retail concept, via an Online Learning Center on BestBuy.com and physical departments within three U.S. Best Buy stores, to provide technology products, solutions and services that help consumers understand, control and reduce their energy consumption and costs. Both the online experience and the physical Continue reading →
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 →
AlertMe, the award-winning home energy management service, today announced the launch of AlertMe Energy, giving consumers the ability to monitor their home energy usage online and act on that information to reduce their bills and carbon footprint. AlertMe Energy includes easy-to-install hardware and an online service that can be accessed from any Web browser. It Continue reading →
With the hustle and bustle of everyday activities, people often to forget to adjust home appliances when leaving for work in the morning. Not only does this cause unnecessary expense for the homeowner, but creates an inefficient energy management system that falls short environmentally. Henning Schulzrinne (News – Alert), a professor at Columbia University, told Continue reading →
Intelligent consumer use of our limited energy supply is now recognised as one of the major factors in the green revolution. According to the Smart Energy Home Initiative, which brings together companies to overcome the barriers that prevent sustainable houses from being the norm, buildings consume 40% of the energy used in Europe and contribute Continue reading →
Here at Earth2Tech, Katie, Josie and the rest of the contributing writers do their best to provide you with a daily glimpse into the big news and trends in the world of cleantech. But we know it can sometimes be hard to see the forest for the trees: Smart grid investment and continuing woes for Continue reading →
