Clean Break » Google PowerMeter http://www.cleanbreak.ca Trends, happenings and innovations in the clean technology market Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Toronto Hydro first Canadian utility to test-drive Google PowerMeter http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/05/20/toronto-hydro-first-canadian-utility-to-test-drive-google-powermeter/ http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/05/20/toronto-hydro-first-canadian-utility-to-test-drive-google-powermeter/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 12:26:42 +0000 Tyler http://www.cleanbreak.ca/?p=1670 About 10,000 Toronto Hydro customers already on smart meters will soon be moving to time-of-use pricing and the rest will be moving by the end of this year, so it makes sense that the utility give folks a way to actually see their electricity use. The company just announced this morning it will be testing out Google’s PowerMeter on select customers, making it the first Canadian utility to do so. If the trial is successful, Toronto Hydro said it may make the software available to all of its customer. Keep in mind the information provided through the Google PowerMeter won’t be granular — i.e., it won’t provide energy usage of individual appliances; just overall residential energy use.

NOTE: My story in the Toronto Star.

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