Peddling home energy management gear and software successfully is harder than it seems, and big companies such as Microsoft and Cisco are ditching this market. EnergyHub is staying and on Thursday… Read more »
Throughout 2009 and 2010, Internet companies like Microsoft, Google and even router giant Cisco launched experimental software and hardware to help building managers and home owners monitor and control their energy… Read more »
Internet giants Google and Microsoft have officially given their web-based energy management tools the Donald Trump (as in You’re Fired!), and lannounced that they would be closing them down. But there… Read more »
They’re dropping like flies: the big Internet companies’ online energy tools. Last week, it was Google pulling the plug on PowerMeter, and this week, it’s RIP for Microsoft and its Hohm… Read more »
In the wake of Google pulling the plug on its energy tool PowerMeter, Microsoft says it has now killed its energy service, Hohm, too. Microsoft writes on its blog that it… Read more »
Can People Power get homeowners interested in managing their energy use? Today the startup, which hasĀ a cloud-based home energy platform, launched new products and partnerships, along with a pilot project in… Read more »
Google has officially pulled the plug on its web energy management tool PowerMeter. The project, which Google launched two years ago, just “didn’t catch on the way we would have hoped,”… Read more »
OPower, the startup that gets homeowners to cut energy use with out in-home dashboards and gateways, is looking at home energy automation devices. What are the pros and cons of high-tech… Read more »
OPower, the startup that’s built its business on getting homeowners to shave energy usage without lots of high-tech sensors and controls in the home, is now considering adding an automation device… Read more »
Wi-Fi’s claim to a place in the ZigBee-dominated home energy management space just got a little bit of support from Google’s PowerMeter and partner Blue Line Innovations. The two were expected… Read more »