-
Demystifying Home Energy Technology at Retail
“Our job is to demystify the technology,” said Kristen Bowring Senior Director, Platform Lead, Home and Energy Management at Best Buy at the 2012 Smart Energy Summit. In this interview, Bowring explains how Best Buy has created home energy departments in three of their stores, in partnerships with utilities, to test how they can educate customers…
-
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…
-
Promoting & Paving the Way to Greater Energy Efficiency
Helping utilities and their customers improve energy efficiency is what Rory Jones of yoUtilBill describes of their outreach and the tool that they have. He explains that their software helps customers prioritize energy investments. This can lead to thousands of dollars in savings for those customers in the top 20% of electricity users. [ViodiTV coverage…
-
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…
-
The Building to Building Singularity
Will we be at the singularity when the number of building-to-building conversations is greater than the number of conversations between the people in those buildings? This is the provocative question posed by Karl Rabago of Austin Energy. Rabago describes a sort of peer-to-peer smart energy management system in this wide-ranging interview at Parks Associates’ Smart…
-
Power to the People with People Power & Energy Applications
Gene Wang with People Power, and the People Power Band reviews energy applications for consumers on how and where they’re using energy.
