An untold story: What the Nest acquisition means for utilities
Google’s purchase of Nest shines a spot light on the crossroads ahead for utilities.
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Google’s purchase of Nest shines a spot light on the crossroads ahead for utilities.
Energy software company Tendril has snapped up intellectual property, employees and a San Francisco office from Recurve, the startup (formerly called Sustainable Spaces) which develops and sells software to help energy auditors determine the most cost-efficient energy efficiency measures for their customers.
Peddling home energy management gear and software successfully is harder than it seems, and big companies such as Microsoft and Cisco are ditching this market. EnergyHub is staying and on Thursday announced a $14.5 million round to help it sell products and services to consumers.
California’s groundbreaking set of rules on utility customer energy data are facing comment from the smart grid industry this week, and there’s still plenty of confusion over the fine print. In short, CPUC’s rules will need to change to avoid stifling the smart grid-home energy marketplace.
The annual smart grid show Distributech, held this week, was chock full of energy gadgets for consumers and utilities to manage home energy consumption. Will any of these succeed, and which one is your favorite? Check out our photo slide show!
Schneider Electric launched a bare bones, utility-centric line of home energy management gear on Tuesday, staking its claim to the residential energy market on the premise that homeowners will choose elegant simplicity over flashy high-tech.
Is 2011 the year that consumers will finally warm to using gadgets and software to manage their home energy consumption? Startups like Tendril and Control4 are using the DistribuTECH show this week to tout new deals and partnerships that they hope will build up the market.
Buzzy Silicon Valley home energy management startup People Power has opened its arms to an enterprise platform approach, one that may involve targeting the office even more aggressively than the home.
Honeywell bought a lock on a key piece of technology for OpenADR deployments when it bought Akuacom this summer. But challengers are emerging with OpenADR server products of their own.
Just last week we noted how Cisco had one official smart grid product on the market, which was basically hardened networking gear for utility substations. Yeah, well scratch that. On Tuesday morning Cisco launched its all-out smart grid assault, including a home energy management product.
Regular readers will know that I’m a fan of the note-taking combo of Notational Velocity on my Mac and Simplenote on my iPhone. But if you’re a Windows user, you should check out CintaNotes, which provides a similarly fast, lightweight access-anywhere note-taking experience for the PC.
Whether you see Apple’s (s AAPL) tablet the iPad as the catalyst of a digital media revolution, or just another gadget that…
When it comes to smart grid data, how much is enough — and how much is too much? That question could pit…
Make it familiar and compelling — that’s the idea behind the design of energy management startup Tendril’s new gadget dubbed the Vision,…
OpenADR — the Berkeley Labs open source system for automating the way utilities do demand response — is already being used to…
It has been a long time (if ever) that a new product has generated such hype after its announcement as the iPad from Apple (s aapl). Who really needs one of these new iPads? My answer may surprise many — no one.
If 2009 was the year that the smart grid became a hot buzz word and utilities first started to look into energy…
What will convince people to actually reduce their home energy consumption and engage with new smart meters that are being rolled out?…
Looks like there’s a solid reason for all these companies developing home energy management tools. Pike Research published a report this morning…
At this point, the number of creative ways that companies have developed to help home owners monitor and manage their energy consumption,…
Whether you think the upcoming international climate talks in Copenhagen will deliver a solution for governments to fight climate change, or will…
While the idea of an investment bubble growing for the smart grid isn’t new, the rhetoric around the question of whether or…
While there will be close to $4 billion in stimulus funds allocated for the smart grid buildout to utilities and tech vendors,…
Earlier this week we pointed out how the almost $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds would provide a way for young…
This week, once again, we heard even more noise from both startups and large firms looking to grab a piece of the…
General Electric (s GE) has said it could start selling some of its smart appliances — dishwashers, water heaters, microwaves and other…
Home automation company Control4 is already predicting annual revenue of around $70 million from its wireless home entertainment, security and lighting management…
CNET’s Martin LaMonica raised the interesting question last week: Is there an investment bubble building around the smart grid? He cites the…
Energy management startups Tendril and AlertMe both announced this week that the companies had raised significant funds for pretty similar-looking products. Both…
There are more than a dozen companies building and launching energy management tools this year, but not all are as well-funded as…
The frenzy is building for the Palm (s palm) Pre launch and already future Pre customers are making plans for launch day.…
Some utilities have indicated to us that they’ve been uncomfortable with the fact that Google (s GOOG) is building software and web…
Energy management startup Tendril thinks consumers will want to control their home energy consumption via their cell phone. The Boulder, Colorado-based company…
Former Internet entrepreneurs that have moved into the energy biz are fond of comparing the Net to the power grid. One of…
Today, casual game advertising network Mochi Media is reporting some pretty impressive user numbers: nearly 100 million monthly uniques across the network.…
Gadget geeks can now manage the energy consumption of their home and gizmos with a new set of tech toys from energy…
Knowing how much Kevin Tofel likes mobile gear and bicycles I wouldn’t be surprised to see him carrying one of these babies…
German High Court has ruled that ISPs don’t have to give out their customer’s information as record labels wage a war on…