Comments on: Google PowerMeter and the customer-ownership question http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2010/02/04/google-powermeter-and-the-customer-ownership-question/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:53:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jim A http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2010/02/04/google-powermeter-and-the-customer-ownership-question/comment-page-1/#comment-2385 Jim A Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:31:29 +0000 http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/?p=1440#comment-2385 The above is all well and good but without the Home Owner involved you have just information. We need to provide the home owner the tools to access/regulate & control the electric consumptions on the home appliances (Hot Water Heater/HVAC/Refrig/ Lighting and near term Solar and Electric Car plug ins). The Utilities meters can only provide accurate usage information and depending on the smarst select on off or cut back of power provided. Smart Grid is Utility centric and unless redirected to home owner will never really conribute to reduce or better use of resources. Jim A. The above is all well and good but without the Home Owner involved you have just information.
We need to provide the home owner the tools to access/regulate & control the electric consumptions on the home appliances (Hot Water Heater/HVAC/Refrig/
Lighting and near term Solar and Electric Car plug ins). The Utilities meters can only provide accurate usage information and depending on the smarst select on off or cut back of power provided.
Smart Grid is Utility centric and unless redirected to home owner will never really conribute to reduce or better use of resources.

Jim A.

]]> By: Sarah Reedy http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2010/02/04/google-powermeter-and-the-customer-ownership-question/comment-page-1/#comment-2309 Sarah Reedy Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:44:09 +0000 http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/?p=1440#comment-2309 An email from a reader/small-business owner: Read your post about Google, PowerMeter, the utilities and info sharing and I can tell you that Google for all it's good intentions is coming off just like Microsoft or IBM of old. (And not unlike the utilities they are encroaching upon.) Sharing the data from the Google PowerMeter users (whether from TED 5000 users or SmartMeter users that support it) would be incredibly useful. Right now Google is collecting that data from the users who downloaded the gadget, and if they gave permission, storing it. If the collective users could see & publish (anonymously) that data (which is not Google's, it's is the users) it could have a dramatic impact on the behavior of others who have not done anything yet to reduce their energy consumption. I know as a small business person trying to get Google's attention is ridiculously hard. Do you know they ask you to fill out a form to contact them? And then they don't contact you. It reminds me of when I used to work with Netscape - all brains and no common sense. An email from a reader/small-business owner:

Read your post about Google, PowerMeter, the utilities and info sharing and I can tell you that Google for all it’s good intentions is coming off just like Microsoft or IBM of old. (And not unlike the utilities they are encroaching upon.)

Sharing the data from the Google PowerMeter users (whether from TED 5000 users or SmartMeter users that support it) would be incredibly useful. Right now Google is collecting that data from the users who downloaded the gadget, and if they gave permission, storing it. If the collective users could see & publish (anonymously) that data (which is not Google’s, it’s is the users) it could have a dramatic impact on the behavior of others who have not done anything yet to reduce their energy consumption.

I know as a small business person trying to get Google’s attention is ridiculously hard. Do you know they ask you to fill out a form to contact them? And then they don’t contact you. It reminds me of when I used to work with Netscape – all brains and no common sense.

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