A smart energy grid inside your home
In case you missed it, this Green Wombat story appears in the current issue of Fortune. A house that thinks The high-tech networks that Reliant Energy is installing in the homes of its 1.8 million...
View ArticleThe iPhone app that fights global warming
Here’s an iPhone app that really could help save the planet while saving stressed consumers’ money: Boulder, Colo.-based startup Tendril this week unveiled a mobile software program that lets people...
View ArticleUsing smart thermostats to cut utility bills
A Silicon Valley startup called EcoFactor aims to cut consumers’ electricity bills and help utilities manage peak demand by controlling homes’ heating and air conditioning systems over the Internet....
View ArticleCalifornia’s smart meter fears
I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. No one said transforming the century-old power system into a state of-the-art digital smart grid was going to be easy. But California already is...
View ArticleReport: PG&E smart meters not to blame for high bills
On Thursday in The New York Times, I write about an independent report that finds that PG&E’s smart meters are not responsible for higher utility bills incurred by some customers: After Pacific...
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