Energy awareness with just a push of a (green) button
Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra announces Green Button, an effort to make understanding (and adjusting) household energy consumption easier through a standardized online platform.
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Two of California's largest utility companies, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric, are already on board with the Green Button feature available to a combined 6 million customers on both of those utility providers’ websites. To the left is a partial screenshot of the Green Button landing page on the PGE website.At an event yesterday in California, I announced the launch of the Green Button initiative, an Administration-led effort based on a simple, common-sense goal: provide electricity customers with easy access to their energy usage data in a consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format via a “Green Button” on electric utilities’ website. With this information in hand, customers can take advantage of innovative energy apps to help them understand their energy usage and find ways to reduce electricity consumption and shrink bills, all while ensuring they retain privacy and security.Thanks to early adoption by two of California’s largest electrical utilities and numerous innovative companies, roughly six million Americans have access to a Green Button starting today. Over time, as utilities across the Nation join in, that number will grow. And so will the application and software market, providing consumers with increasing insight and useful information into their everyday electricity consumption—as well as ways to take action based on that knowledge.
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