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OPower Ponders an Energy Device
OPower, the startup that says it doesn’t need high-tech dashboards to get homeowners to cut their energy use, is now considering adding a home energy automation device to its portfolio. That bit of...
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How California’s Smart Grid Privacy Ruling Will Affect the Industry
The California Public Utility Commission came out with a proposed ruling (PDF) earlier this month aimed at clearing up all the questions about who owns and controls data that passes through smart...
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Google pulls the plug on PowerMeter energy tool
Google has officially pulled the plug on its web energy management tool PowerMeter. The project, which Google launched two years ago, just “didn’t catch on the way we would have hoped,” says Google in...
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5 reasons Google PowerMeter didn’t take off
Google officially shuttered its web energy tool PowerMeter Friday after the application failed to bring in enough users. For those who have watched PowerMeter’s slow slog over its two-year lifespan,...
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Microsoft kills energy tool Hohm, too
In the wake of Google pulling the plug on its energy tool PowerMeter, Microsoft says it has now killed its energy service, Hohm, too. Microsoft writes on its blog that it will discontinue its Hohm...
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Missing PowerMeter & Hohm? Here are 12 other home energy tool options
Internet giants Google and Microsoft have officially given their web-based energy management tools the Donald Trump (as in, “You’re Fired!”), and last week, announced they would be closing them down in...
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Updated: Google to kill Labs, but not all of them!
Updated: Google just announced it is ending its Labs program, in an effort to focus more on its existing products, and a collective gasp has gone up around the Internet. My first thought was, “Oh my...
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Why Internet companies are abandoning home energy plans
Throughout 2009 and 2010, Internet companies like Microsoft, Google and even router giant Cisco launched experimental software and hardware to help building managers and home owners monitor and control...
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EnergyHub raises $14.5M to market energy management tools to consumers
UPDATED: Peddling home energy management gear and software successfully is harder than it seems, and some startups as well as big companies such as Microsoft and Cisco are ditching this market....
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Connected world: the consumer technology revolution
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks but...
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Report: Google getting back into the energy data game?
Google killed its energy data software PowerMeter in the Summer of 2011. But has it been keeping the dream of managing consumer’s energy data alive all this time? According to a report in the newly...
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Google to Congress: Go Big On Enhanced Geothermal, Smart Meters
Lately, when Google.org has gotten involved with the workings of Capitol Hill, it has called for transparency and open standards, and promoted its PowerMeter tool. Today Dan Reicher, Google.org’s...
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Google, Tech Firms Weigh In on Smart Grid Funding
If you want to have your say on how more than $4 billion in stimulus funds will be spent on the smart grid, well, you’re too late. The Department of Energy’s comment period, which called for input on...
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Google Makes Utility & Smart Meter Friends for Energy Tool PowerMeter
Some utilities have indicated to us that they’ve been uncomfortable with the fact that Google is building software and web tools for energy management and smart meters called PowerMeter. In their eyes,...
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Utility Perspective: Why Partner With Google PowerMeter?
The news that utilities like San Diego Gas & Electric and incumbent meter maker Itron will be offering Google’s PowerMeter energy tool to their customers offers a glimpse of how the old-skool power...
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Will the Microsoft-Google Battle Move to Energy Data?
The big news this week for Google, and anyone interested in smart meters and energy management, is that the company has partnered with utilities like San Diego Gas & Electric and meter maker Itron...
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Chipmakers Get Tied Up in Home Networking
Wireless networking gets all the love in today’s mobile world, but inside the home, wires will still play a key role in delivering entertainment and other content. Your set-top box may sport an...
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Images of Google PowerMeter, No Business Model
Curious about what Google’s disruptive online energy management tool Google PowerMeter’s gonna look like on your iGoogle homepage? This afternoon the team behind the search engine giant’s answer to the...
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Screenshots: Google's Online Energy Tool PowerMeter
If you’ve been wondering what Google’s online energy management tool PowerMeter will look like, then we’ve got a treat for you: The company showed off PowerMeter as an iGoogle gadget that manages home...
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Smart Grid Bubble? Heck No. Home Energy Management Bubble? Yep
CNET’s Martin LaMonica raised the interesting question last week: Is there an investment bubble building around the smart grid? He cites the opinions of several investors worried about too much money...
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