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All Carrot, No Stick – The Peak Time Rebate
Giving people an incentive to voluntarily reduce energy usage during peak demand is what Ted Reguly of San Diego Gas and Electric discusses in this video interview. Reguly discusses the challenges of making customers aware of the program and then giving incentives appropriate to a given customer. He suggests that the role San Diego Gas…
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Home Energy Management as Content
“The furnace and the air conditioner in the average home accounts for almost 50% of energy use, so, it’s a big-ticket item about a $1,000 a year in the average home,” according to John Steinberg, EVP of Business Development and Co-Founder of EcoFactor. EcoFactor provides an energy management service with an initial focus on heating…
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Future Apartment
In this brief video, filmed at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit, Andie Garcia of Verizon Enhanced Communities demonstrates an example of a feature of the apartment of the future; that is available today. Garcia shows the type of broadband application and devices that allow owners to enhance the value of their property. Tom Nugent of…
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Strong, Faster Than Before – The Video
About two months ago, an impromptu video I shot at CES 2012 went somewhat viral. The reason for its relative popularity was because Popular Science selected it to be part of their YouTube channel. Why it was picked up by Popular Science remains a mystery. Still, based on the number of YouTube “likes” versus “dislikes”, the message…
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Help Wanted: A National Clearinghouse for Smart Energy
A clearinghouse that brings third parties and the 2,000+ electric utilities together to create a national market for Demand Response (DR) is needed, according to Roy Perry of Alarm.com. Perry, formerly of Cable Labs, has been a thought-leader in looking at how to achieve energy efficiency goals in cost-effective ways (see this interview from the…
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The Sleepy & Instant On Set-Top
“Lite sleep” and “Deep Sleep” are two of the power-reduction initiatives that Cable Labs is actively pursuing to reduce the power consumption, explains Ralph Brown, CTO of Cable Labs. Being more efficient, without sacrificing performance and not sacrificing user-experience is their goal. With a stated aim that 90% of the set-tops purchased by the end of 2013 be…
