PowerMeter
Key Facts
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Google PowerMeter is a free electricity usage monitoring tool that provides you with information on how much energy your home is consuming.
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Google has developed a free, opt in, web-enabled software tool called Google PowerMeter that draws information from smart meters and energy management devices to give consumers simple and easy access to their energy consumption information. Google PowerMeter receives information from utility smart meters and in-home energy management devices and visualizes this information for you on iGoogle (your personalized Google homepage).
- The project took 18 months to implement
- The actual (or projected) savings from the project are up to 15% of electricity consumption for each household which installs a Google PowerMeter.
- The primary sponsor for the project was CEO and Founders
What was the impact?
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Comments on Carbon or Energy savings
Up to 15% per user. Exact user metrics are not available. We have partnered with 9 utilities in 4 countries representing hundreds of millions of customers. When aggregated over millions of homes, the savings could result in hundreds of millions of tons of avoided CO2 emissions. Studies show that when consumers can see in near real-time how much energy they are using, they save up to 15% of their electricity use with simple behavioral changes, and even more with smart electricity pricing and investments in energy efficiency. - The project has no verification for results
Making it Happen
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Barriers experienced during the initiation of the project
Highlights
- Project Type
- Project
- Solution Type
- Smart Grid
Energy information is proven to empower consumers to save energy and information.
Who
- Company Name
A provider of clean technologies or services
Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The company is running thousands of servers worldwide, which process millions of search requests each day and about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour.
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Glasgow EPB, JEA, Reliance Energy, San Diego Gas & Electric, Toronto Hydro–Electric System Limited, TXU Energy, White River Valley Electric Cooperative, Wisconsin Public Service, Yello Strom.
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