Consumer Smart Grid Applications

Make Your Home more Energy Savvy

EnergySavvy, a company based in Seattle, helps consumers take advantage of new smart grid apps and plain old construction materials to have a more energy efficient home.

From the company’s website: We build software systems that integrate with utility and government energy efficiency programs. Our solutions accelerate uptake and guide homeowners through the upgrade process. Smart [...]

PG&E Customers Complain About New Smart Meters

A large number of PG&E customer in the San Francisco Bay Area have been complaining about errors (mainly over billing) with their new smart meters. 1,500 customers have complained, and when a local TV station visited one home owner who’s bill increased from $100 a month to $380 a month it found that the meter [...]

Advanced Metering Penetration

There have been significant increases in advanced metering in the US since 2006.

The results of the 2008 FERC Demand Response and Advanced Metering Survey (2008 FERC
Survey) indicate advanced metering penetration (i.e., the ratio of advanced meters to all installed
meters) has reached about 4.7 percent for the United States. This is a significant increase from 2006,
when [...]

What Consumers Want From Smart Grid Applications

According to the US DOE, consumers want some pretty basic stuff from smart grid technologies:

Consumers are not interested in sitting around for an hour a day to change how their house uses energy; what they will do is spend two hours per year to set their comfort, price and environmental preferences – enabling collaboration with [...]