Social energy meters

"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it." — Lord Kelvin This quote is central to a range of services that enables the concious energy consumer. The services build upon the activities of measuring, organizing and sharing your private energy consumption data. Originally this activity was done to keep you energy bills at bay, but today this is emerging as a collective effort to reduce global impact of greenhous gases. Statistics inform us that accsess to home energy information results in savings of 5-15% on the energy bill with comparable savings for the environment. Google Power Meter - focus on display & share Google recently announced through google.org an initiative for the collection, organization and utilization of domestic energy consumption through Google Power Meter . Although they are not the first, it is worth noticing when the one of the biggest companies on collection, organization and utilization of data enters this field. With partners such as