Comments on: How Google's PowerMeter Will Affect the Smart Meter Industry http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/ Tue, 21 May 2013 19:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: izzie32 http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20067 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:48:31 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20067 The company that serves my area isn’t about to admit any errors although many are occuring. One error no one seems to think about is that some smart meters were installed at the wrong home. SSSooooooo you may be paying for a much larger less energy efficient home. Conversely someone is paying less because they are getting your bill. Great. The meters are also as much as 30% off, does this sound like no problems to you. sure

]]> By: Cali Utilities: Get Ready to Give Your Customers Smart Meter Data! http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20066 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:28:39 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20066 [...] for Google — one of the IT giants that’s jumped into home energy management with its PowerMeter platform — this CPUC process is “a hugely important proceeding that will determine how the ecosystem in [...]

]]> By: Jeff Meyer http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20065 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:55:38 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20065 Yes, the PG&E sub-contractor arrived at my door step and installed the GE Smart Meter today: 05-FEB-2010. They also tried to install the gas meter smart meter on the face of the old meter, but due to a poorly designed installation back in the 70s, it does not fit. It will be interesting to see how PG&E resolves this.

The GE meter has a sticker under glass with Silver Springs device address on it.

Now I need to go back and learn if the Google Power meter / PG&E relationship has unfrozen. It is not clear to me that I will be able to use Power meter any time soon.

]]> By: Peter Troast http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20064 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:40:16 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20064 @Jim. Think of Google PowerMeter as the energy equivalent of Google Analytics. You’re absolutely right that it requires a sensor (versus a snippet of javascript) but I think it’s a fair bet that the current iGoogle widget will grow into a much more robust analytical dashboard in time. I wrote more on this in this Big Ideas for 2010 post:

http://www.energycircle.com/blog/2009/12/31/10-big-ideas-home-energy-efficiency-2010

]]> By: Kevin Wang http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20063 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:26 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20063 on approximately Feb 10, 2010, PG&E Installed the smart gas meter monitoring at my house in silicon valley.

]]> By: Google Slowly Adding Users for Energy Tool PowerMeter http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20062 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:58:25 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20062 [...] still early days for Google’s web-based energy tool PowerMeter. A company spokesperson told us today that Google has “a few thousand users at this [...]

]]> By: The Case of the Home Energy Boom: 3M Invests in The Energy Detective http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20061 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:38:16 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20061 [...] experiment in the increasingly hot market of home energy management products. Computing giants like Google, Microsoft and Intel have been developing energy management tools, startups have been building [...]

]]> By: Alex http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20060 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:29:44 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20060 open4energy is tracking a complete list of all energy monitors. One in the US, and one in the UK support Google PowerMeter.

There are now 27 devices we have listed in the US and 7 in the UK

http://open4energy.com/technology/list_home_energy_monitor

Please let us know if you find any we have missed

]]> By: Top 15 Stories from 2009 | Earth2Tech « http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20059 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:28:20 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20059 [...] How Google’s PowerMeter Will Affect the Smart Meter Industry: This was when Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter first emerged, and this post covered our predictions for how the tool would affect the industry. I also like this scoop we did on Google’s first gadget partner: Google’s PowerMeter Bypasses the Smart Meter, Signs Up First Gadget Partner [...]

]]> By: Our Favorites: Top 15 Earth2Tech Stories from 2009 http://gigaom.com/2009/02/11/how-googles-powermeter-will-affect-the-smart-meter-industry/#comment-20058 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:01:44 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=22817#comment-20058 [...] How Google’s PowerMeter Will Affect the Smart Meter Industry: This was when Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter first emerged, and this post covered our predictions for how the tool would affect the industry. I also like this scoop we did on Google’s first gadget partner: Google’s PowerMeter Bypasses the Smart Meter, Signs Up First Gadget Partner [...]

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