Participants in that challenge are sure to benefit from electronic access to their energy data.
They are catalogued on OpenEI.org, which along with energy.data.gov showcases a wide range of open energy data sets.
It builds on previous commitments under the Green Button Initiative to help consumers download their own energy data to their desktops.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change says it will closely monitor energy data and performance through additional meters and detailed surveys.
The EcoHub app works by pulling overall home energy usage data, provided by an energy data source, such as a utility or smart meter company.
Green Button Connect My Data enables energy customers to securely and automatically transfer their own energy data to authorized third parties, if they choose to do so.
Although magnetic tape sitting in slots in a tape library uses very little energy data latency is high, spinning magnetic disk drives have lower latency but they can use up a fair amount of energy.
By adding Obvius to its list of offerings, Leviton is staking out its position as single-source provider of measurement and verification solutions in the field of lighting and energy management solutions, which include smart metering, energy data information, load management and LEED rating achievement.
Our communities, our economy, and our environment all stand to benefit as we move forward with the Energy Data Initiative to unlock data that can lead us to new ways to save energy and money, reduce pollution, provide energy services, and create jobs to ensure an American economy that is built to last.
Building on the success of the Green Button initiative which is providing consumers with secure access to their own energy data and has facilitated the voluntary release of energy-use data in computer-readable form to encourage private-sector innovation the Energy Data Initiative aims to harness the power of energy data through a combination of technology and ingenuity.
Brad Wurtz, CEO of Power Assure, an energy and data structure infrastructure management vendor, foresees a day when data centers move workloads around the country to take advantage of energy price differences between regions.
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The energy use data is then aggregated to show vehicle owners exactly how much energy is being used on a daily, monthly or yearly basis, while showing what percentage of that energy went to charging the Volt.
The energy consumption data also could help home and business owners take stock of their energy use and take actions to save money, such as putting in more energy efficient light bulbs and appliances or running washers and dryers only when electric rates are low.
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The bottom line question is: who owns the value of that energy use data?
Alongside the guidelines goes a consultation exercise to find out what should happen to detailed energy use data.
Smart meters, which come with communication chips, collect and send energy use data back to their utilities throughout the day.
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So whether Facebook will actually be able to drive the transition to cleaner energy for data centers remains to be seen.
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This savings is occurring while providing them with a new, scalable method of aggregating customer energy consumption data, along with improved data security.
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Everyone agrees that consumers need to be educated about the entirely new types of energy use data that can be created with Smart Grid technologies.
In the case of investor owned utilities, should regulators insist that proceeds of sales of anonymized energy use data be disbursed to ratepayers instead of shareholders?
The company has become a prominent player in the so-called smart grid market because its communication technologies help utilities collect and manage energy consumption data from customers quickly.
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Utilities are forecast to burn 808 million tons of coal this year, a 13 percent decline from last year and the fewest tons since 1992, according to Energy Department data.
However, it's the future uses we're more excited about -- eventually, you'll be able to upload energy usage data into the system automatically, provided you're getting voltage from one of the partner companies.
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For example, a number of companies provide tailored advice for individuals about how to save money on their electricity bills based on their own energy usage data, which is made available through the Administration-catalyzed, industry-led Green Button initiative.
Launching in early 2012, this yet-to-be-name app will allow 800 million Facebook users to pull home energy usage data provided by their utility provider (the non-Oprah-Winfrey-related Opower works with a growing network of more than 60 utility companies across the country) and share it, warts and all, with fellow Facebookers.
According to the latest International Energy Agency data for August, OECD inventories were around 25 mb below their five-year averages, placing those countries in a tighter spot than they were in 2008, when countries had abundant oil based on the perceived notion that their economies were going to keep on booming.
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Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology is working collaboratively with industry to enable millions of residential and commercial energy customers to securely download and share their own energy usage data in a standardized human-readable and machine-readable format directly from their utilities.
The intelligence report discussed the extensive theft of data from global energy companies and proprietary data such as client lists and acquisition plans at other companies.
His analysis was based on U.S. Energy Information Administration data, although Mazria told me the energy footprints of buildings in developed countries worldwide are likely comparable.
Energy Points uses data from the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, other U.S. federal agencies and local utilities.
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