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Is it just me or is that graph missing something....
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As solar technology steadily improves, and as stimulus money gets channeled into the green power industry, soon a significant percentage of power will come from individuals and small power farms. Hard to imagine now? Sound greenwashed? Solar panels already pay for themselves after just a few years. In ten years crowdsourced power will be a completely new market and Google (as usual) is putting themselves in the position to be the manager of that market. This is big stuff.
More: http://thinksketch.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/google-begins-infiltration-of-energy-market-for-good-or-for-awesome/

-ThinkSketch

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Posted by: Peter Horvath on February 10, 2009 at 9:26 PM

@ThinkSketch Off-the-grid power networks are an interesting evolution of new ways of managing your relationship with energy consumption. I believe anyone brave enough to pursue such a lifestyle is pioneer in reinventing how we operate with those who supply energy.

I think devices like the kill-a-watt and Google's proposed system are a step forward. What's lacking however, is context for the end-user. They are not aware what it means to use X KWH vs. Y KWH. If there was someway to inform the user: "Hey, you used 8000 times more energy than a family in Africa today." I think that will create a more successful gauge for power consumption.

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There is another option - Powometer.

Currently only supports Wattson but that is changing.
There is also a (open) interface which allows the integration of any devices over http / xml.

Cheers,
Crispin
http://www.powometer.co.uk

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We have been working on a complete list of home energy monitoring devices.

The list con be found here!

http://www.open4energy.com/technology/home_energy_saving_devices

If you know of any others, or have used one and can comment on your experience please will you so that we can lean from each other

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