Comments on: Smart Meters That Can Tweet, From a Utility That "Gets" Broadband

By: Cisco Wants to Transform Energy Demand and Use with Smart Buildings · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:47:13 +0000

[...] Yello Strom is using its customers’ broadband link to manage its smart meter service, reports GigaOM. This means the utility company can offer consumers Web-style smart meter applications, including [...]

By: Architectural Technologist – Energy Event 09

Architectural Technologist – Energy Event 09 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:10:07 +0000

[...] Smart Meters That Can Tweet, From a Utility That “Gets” Broadband (gigaom.com) [...]

By: Don Jackson

Don Jackson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:05:05 +0000

Interesting.

I commented on a previous post ( http://gigaom.com/2009/05/04/how-wimax-can-retool-the-power-grid ) that power companies should stop trying to build new data networking infrastructure and let us plug smart meters into our existing broadband connections ( http://gigaom.com/2009/05/04/how-wimax-can-retool-the-power-grid/#comment-941940 ) and I was taken to task for proposing something that would never work ( http://gigaom.com/2009/05/04/how-wimax-can-retool-the-power-grid/#comment-942031 . Ha!

By: What’s Hot on the GigaOM Network?

What’s Hot on the GigaOM Network? — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:03:30 +0000

[...] Smart Meters That Can Tweet, From a Utility That “Gets” Broadband- GigaOM [...]

By: Taco de Vries

Taco de Vries — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:53:37 +0000

It is incorrect to state smart metering is free for US consumers and that there is a “slight” rate increase for the consumers. Check the rate cases, e.g. Centerpoint will charge you the full cost of the meter, $3.05 every month for 11 years or about $400 per consumer, if you want the meter or not. The total cost for Centerpoint’s customers add up to about 800 million US, and the “proven” benefits are a miserable 125 million over 17 years, with 97% due to firing meter readers.

If you read the rate case carefully you can see that Centerpoint will do almost NOTHING in the project, it outsources the entire “network ugrade” to Itron and IBM.

Hardly anything to be proud of nor copy elsewhere

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:45:22 +0000

I Like this blog, my one complaint is how US centric you all are. I really wish you would remember that the vast majority of people on this planet live outside the US… so how about considering the wider global implications

By: Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:06:35 +0000

Out buildings have been tweeting their energy consumption for some time. http://twitter.com/AlquistARJ. This is a demonstration project showing how you can use social networking to get people interested in in saving energy.

Andrew