domestic energy monitoring Articles
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Time to change habits, as well as light bulbs?
November 16, 2010 We are bombarded daily by advertisements selling us soft drinks, pharmaceuticals, cars, insurance, junk food, teeth whitener, diet programs, and on and on. But when was the last time someone tried to sell you on using more electricity? I cannot think of a single commercial that encourages us to plug-in, even though electricity is the chief product of 3,000 utilities in the ...
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Building Sustainable Homes with a Modern Design
Long before there was such a thing as “influencers,” Interior Designers had influence over their client’s purchasing decisions. For environmentally-focused designers like Jo Alcorn, founder and principal of Alcorn Home, smart home technology is part of the picture, in steering homeowners towards a sustainable ...
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Smart grid and stupid buildings: Can this marriage survive?
Smart grid is still in its honeymoon phase. Hardly a day goes by without fanfare in the news about how it will reform building energy use. Maybe so. But for the marriage of smart grid and US buildings to work, someone's got to change. Is the stupid building up to the task? “Wiring the Smart Grid for Energy Efficiency,' a white paper by Oregon-based Portland Energy Conservation Inc (PECI), brings ...
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Change! IoT energy meter change people's lives
IoT energy meter, with the rapid development of IoT has been fully used, and has become an important part of the smart home, quickly attracted people's attention. IoT energy meter not only has the function of traditional power meter, such as remote meter reading, automatically charges and etc., but also through IoT power meters home energy monitors and other supporting appliance, which can ...
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Wolselely`s Sustainable Building Centre: Showcasing the now
This European and North American building products wholesaler employs more than 80,000 people in 5,000 distribution centres, including 1,800 branches across the UK. One of the newest additions to the network is in Leamington Spa and is designed to showcase sustainable building technology. Business insight The construction sector has a key role to play in relation to a range of ...
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Building Better: Sustainability is built into every house
There’s an old environmentalist’s mantra about thinking globally but acting locally. Several homebuilders, including Woodbridge, Ont.-based Country Homes are putting that practice into place by committing to build sustainable housing using products like Schneider Electric’s Wiser Energy Smart Home Monitor to help achieve their goals. A smart home is a sustainable ...
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California solar installers: 3 offers to make your business stand out
There’s arguably never been a more exciting time for solar businesses in the U.S. According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, solar accounted for 56 percent of all new electricity-generating capacity added in the first half of 2021. And this is only the beginning of the solar construction boom. Nowhere is this growth more apparent than in California, where installers are in a race ...
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