Comments on: How Google's PowerMeter Will Affect the Smart Meter Industry

By: izzie32

izzie32 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:48:31 +0000

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!

Cali Utilities: Get Ready to Give Your Customers Smart Meter Data! — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:28:39 +0000

[...] 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

Jeff Meyer — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:55:38 +0000

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

Peter Troast — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:40:16 +0000

@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

Kevin Wang — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:26 +0000

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

Google Slowly Adding Users for Energy Tool PowerMeter — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:58:25 +0000

[...] 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

The Case of the Home Energy Boom: 3M Invests in The Energy Detective — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:38:16 +0000

[...] 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

Alex — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:29:44 +0000

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

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Top 15 Stories from 2009 | Earth2Tech « — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:28:20 +0000

[...] 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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[...] "true" } When Google started talking about its energy management web tool PowerMeter earlier this year, a big hurdle quickly became apparent: The search engine giant’s market for the device would be [...]

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Now Available: GridPoint’s Home Energy Management Tool — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:01:57 +0000

[...] smart grid company, IT firm and software startup seems to have the desire to build a home energy management tool these days. [...]

By: Google to Move Into Clean Energy Project Investing

Google to Move Into Clean Energy Project Investing — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:56:02 +0000

[...] speed up the pace of innovation in the greentech industry — they’ve developed their own energy tools, invested in greentech startups and even engineered their own solar hardware. But at an event at [...]

By: Duke CTO: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom At the Edge of the Smart Grid

Duke CTO: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom At the Edge of the Smart Grid — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:39 +0000

[...] It’s the same sea change that the mobile industry has recently gone through, as Google and Apple have developed their own ecosystems to develop mobile products at the edge of the cellular network. The Internet industry learned this lesson early and Internet companies like Google have been pushing that mentality into other industries like the power industry (Google has developed the energy management software PowerMeter). [...]

By: Google’s PowerMeter Links with AlertMe, UK Utilility

Google’s PowerMeter Links with AlertMe, UK Utilility — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:39:38 +0000

[...] meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter. AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index [...]

By: @Google This Morn: DOE Secretary Chu and Eric Schmidt Announcement

@Google This Morn: DOE Secretary Chu and Eric Schmidt Announcement — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:54:21 +0000

[...] at a speech tomorrow in Florida. Google has developed its own energy software management tool, PowerMeter, and has been working on a smart grid product with General [...]