A significant improvement in Demand Side Management communications technologies towards smart appliances direct control
Data has been transmitted across a national electricity grid for the first time, in what could be a significant step towards the creation of virtual power stations, where many thousands of homes and businesses combine…
Smart Thermostats in 2016 report
Thermostats are the center of the home when it comes to residential energy management. In the United States, heating and cooling account for about 48% of the energy use in a typical home, making it…
How smart meters are changing energy efficiency in California
Two years ago, the U.S. reached a quiet tipping point in the modernization of its power grid: The number of electric meters with two-way communications surpassed the number of older models on the grid. It’s…
Who is the Home energy management (HEM) Leaderboard Laggard?
Home energy management (HEM) is a broad market segment covering technologies and services that consumers use to help them better manage and control their home energy consumption. A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examines…
Outstanding smart thermostat vendors
The market for communicating and smart thermostats has exploded with activity in the last couple of years, evolving through an early technology adoption phase and into a stable and growing market. Recently, partnerships among vendors,…
Sensors may be key to truly smart cities
Smart cities may be a wave of the future, but many countries are just working to support their residents in the present. A new technology looks at how, as populations increase, technology can help bring…
How the home energy management market is reinventing itself
Home energy management has been poised to take off for the last decade. Despite analysts’ optimistic predictions, it hasn’t. But after 10 years of watching the market struggle, with consumers showing just moderate interest in…
Residential demand response (DR) becoming more customer-friendly
Residential demand response (DR) hails as far back as the 1970s when it was used as a component of the energy conservation focus of demand-side management (DSM) programs to encourage consumers to use less electricity…
