Google PowerMeter Will Measure Your Home Energy Consumption

Blog • Feb 11

Google PowerMeter is a really cool new service (currently in beta) that will receive information from smart meters and energy management devices in your home to show you a real-time graph of your energy consumption.

Google PowerMeter

That means you can see which of your household activities consume the most energy, and make changes that will help you reduce your impact and your energy bill.

Watch this video to learn more:

Think about the way we use energy in our homes today.

If you’re a student splitting the electric bill with 3 other people, you pay 1/4 of the bill even if you use only 1/6 of the energy, while your roommates have no incentive to reduce their energy consumption because they can’t even track how much they actually use.

With smart meters and services like Google PowerMeter, we will be able to track who uses what and split the bill accordingly.

Read more in this New York Times article about Google PowerMeter.

Comments

AccignadonicY
May 20, 2009

Solid web site. i will come back soon,,

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