Google Partners With Energy Companies to Let You Monitor Your Usage
Google Partners With Energy Companies to Let You Monitor Your Usage
Posted 05/22/2009 at 2:30pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Google has long been an advocate of saving energy where possible, and now they’re bringing that same policy to their users with the recent introduction of the Google PowerMeter, a gadget that allows you to track your home’s power consumption.
The gadget will track your juice use by pulling information from your power company, just so long as it’s one of their partners. Their partners include: San Diego Gas & Electric (California), TXU Energy (Texas), JEA (Florida), Reliance Energy (India), Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (Wisconsin), White River Valley Electric Cooperative (Missouri), Toronto Hydro–Electric System Limited (Canada), and Glasgow EPB (Kentucky).
Currently the feature will only be handed out a small group of customers with each utility company, but this is purely for testing. They plan on making it more available once this process is taken care of.
If you’re interested in finding out more, be sure to check out the PowerMeter home page here.
Image Credit: Google
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DrMD
May 23, 2009 at 4:15pm
I love this crap, we're heading for such a level of surveillance previously only seen by Skynet. The thing about all these monitering programs is that they originate outside of your control, I mean for example you don't have a program to monitor your electric useage but gOOgle and your electric company do which they'll offer to you. Yeah you can get a KiloWatt and plug all your stuff in but that's not nearly as convienent as a program on your pc. Personally, i don't really care, let them look, listen and fill terabytes until they overflow with information. It's way too late to put the smoke back in the bottle so until the playing field is leveled by a program that lets you know the actual level that you're being monitored, sit back and enjoy the ride, unless you're really paranoid.
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