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Raj Mehta March 20, 2009 at 12:33 pm

I am really intrigued with their approach. As they say, if you measure and communicate it well, you can manage it. Otherwise not. They are applying this to the world of electric energy consumption. It can even be applied to water and natural gas consumption where it is metered at the point of consumption.

What intrigues me are the following two questions:

1) Their approach involves the utilities as their customer. How has that worked out? Is this the
best approach?

2) Which states in the US and which countries have embarked on Advanced Metering Infrastructure
(AMI) or some other forms of smart metering? Without this, PE’s model would not work.

However, that said, smart metering has to happen. There is too much information that is not being
captured currently. It is not only about energy, but also about customer behavior. That leads me to another intrigue question of mine ;-)

3) What kind of privacy issues arise? How are they being addressed? Would the end user really
care about privacy of their energy usage?

I’ll find out more a little later.

Raj

Elizabeth Guevara June 12, 2009 at 11:36 am

Positive Energy is looking for really smart Computer Science graduates that want to join our development team. We specifically want to hire a Front-End Web Developer (CSS, HTML, Javascript) and a QA Engineer (open-source tools experience).

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