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December 2009
Llanelli Star - Station energy mission
Midweek Observer (Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead) - Current affairs
Practical Boat Owner - RNLI saving lives and energy
Prima - 3 ways to cut cost

November 2009
Berwickshire News & East Lothian Herald - Lifeboat stations going green with new energy monitors
Boat Mart - RNLI saves lives and energy
Buchan Observer - RNLI: saving lives and energy
Chester Chronicle - Low Carbon: Flint lifeboat station monitors energy
East Fife Mail - Greener lifeboats
ElectricNet - Intamac And Current Cost Visualize Energy Savings In Real-Time For ConsumersEngineering & Technology - People power
Grimsby Telegraph - Lifesaving charity battles to cut costs by cutting energy use
hookthenet.com - Intamac and Current Cost visualize energy savings in real-time for consumers
Isotoma - Monitoring Your Power Usage
Kentish Express - Life boat crews can save energy
Sheerness Times Guardian - Lifeboat goes green
Sunderland Echo - Lifeboat men turn  energy saving
Tech talk and my thoughts
Weston Mercury - RNLI goes green
Whitby Gazette - RNLI goes green
Brassed Off - Current Cost energy monitoring

October 2009
Dorset Echo - It's green watch for RNLI
Narberth & Whitland Observer - RNLI, the charity that saves lives and energy
Surrey Advertiser - How much energy do you waste?
Surrey Hants Star Courier - The lights go out, the bill goes down
Tenby Observer
UK Energy Saving Blog - The Envi from Current Cost
Working Review - Keeping an eye on the energy you use
Argus (Brighton) - Green gift to lifeboats will cut costs

September 2009
Ascent Stage - The cost of my current
Linuk UK - Graphs with Current Cost and RRDTool

August 2009
Tiscali - Energy saving in summer as well as winter
Moneymagpie.com  - Big summer energy savings
Ethical Consumer - Take action
MSN - Cutting power costs

July 2009
TechRadar.com Save money by tracking your electricity use
Petersfield Herald - Power to the pupils
Publican - Hypermiling my electricity bill

June 2009
Woman & Home - Watch the cost
Real Business - Is BIS just “lipstick on a pig”?
Petersfield Herald - Helping schools cut energy
portsmouth.co.uk - Petersfield students finding out about energy use
The News (Fareham & Gosport) - Community challenge initiative sees students finding out about energy use
Surrey & Hants Courier Star - Business to move into town
Fairhome.co.uk  - Check your energy use from your mobile phone
National Instruments - Home Energy Monitor - now with added Twitter and Pachube
Environment Times - Household bills can be cut by 15%
IT-Analysis.com - Power to your palm
Newsblaze.com  - Power to your palm
Wireless Developer Network - Home Energy Use Information Straight to Your Mobile Phone

April 2009
The Observer - Ethical living
GadgetLite - Current Cost launches latest energy monitor, ENVI
Buying & Using Utilities - Changing habits for a greener future
Businesses XL - Rising star
ChopsyBaby.co.uk  - Count down the cost of you electricity bill with Current Cost

March 2009
Sunday Times - How I made it

February 2009
Maintenance & Engineering - Seeing the light

January 2009
GreenMyStyle.com  - Energy saving know how
Smarta.com  - How thinking outside the box enabled me to fund my forward-thinking business
The Business Magazine - Environmental business focus

December 2008
Act On CO2 - Carrying out energy audits to change household habits
Automated Home - Reduce your bills with smart home power monitoring
daveharte.com  - How to connect your Current Cost device to a PC
Morpeth Herald - Pegswood family's national energy challenge

June 2008
Guardian Blogs - Hacking goodness on the weekend: Current Cost Live

INDUSTRY Letter to President Obama

We all receive an electricity bill once a month that is hard to decipher besides the total amount due. What if we instead had access to more useful and actionable information about our energy consumption? What if consumers could use this information to automatically adjust appliances, lights, and other equipment to save money and cut energy use?

That’s what a group of over 45 major companies and organizations said today in a letter to President Obama. Signers include companies like AT&T, General Electric and Intel and NGOs like The Climate Group, NRDC and the Alliance to Save Energy. The group also includes start ups, smart grid companies, venture firms and trade organizations.

This diverse group shares a common vision: giving consumers the ability to monitor and manage their power use will save them energy and money. It will also unleash innovation in homes and businesses as new energy saving technologies and app's are developed.

This group will continue to look for ways to offer ideas to policymakers on how to empower consumers with energy saving tools and information. Join the discussion tomorrow at an event in Washington, DC co-hosted by Google and The Climate Group. If you can make it, RSVP here.

Posted by Michael Terrell, Energy Policy Counsel

Click her to read letter

News

Consumer Energy Information: A Call to Action

December 15, 2009

Copenhagen, Denmark

"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it."

-- Lord Kelvin

Summary

Google, GE, The Climate Group, and NRDC, supported by a broad group of companies and organizations, call on governments across the world to provide citizens access to real-time information on home energy use. Studies show that simply giving people this information can result in energy savings of up to 15%. And with straightforward additional steps we can capture even greater savings. The bottom line: We can't solve climate change if people are in the dark about how they use energy in their own homes.

Call to Action

Citizens need better access to information about how they use energy – and they need the tools to use less. Studies show that when people have access to direct feedback on their home energy use, they save up to 15% based on simple behavioral changes such as turning off lights and switching off devices that are always on even when they’re "off."1 Changing light bulbs, replacing inefficient appliances, and weatherizing homes lead to even greater savings. And as we add computer chips to everything from thermostats to washing machines, we increasingly enable consumers to better manage their energy use.

By empowering citizens with information and tools for managing energy, governments and businesses around the world can harness the power of hundreds of millions of people to fight climate change – and save consumers hundreds of billions of dollars in the process. Specifically, countries should ensure their citizens have access to basic information such as:

   * Real-time or near real-time home energy consumption

   * Pricing and pricing plans

   * Carbon intensity, including source and carbon content of electricity

This information can be delivered to citizens with technologies that exist today and can be rapidly deployed. To get there, countries can provide incentives for energy monitoring equipment and set rules for consumer access to information. They can also enact stronger energy efficiency standards, as well as provide financial incentives and smarter energy pricing plans.

If all households in developed countries achieved a 15% energy savings by 2020, it would mean about a 470 MtCO2 equiv. reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. This is equivalent to:

   * About 10 Denmark's or 100 Copenhagen's;2

   * Taking more than 200 million cars off the road in the EU;3

   * Shutting down 124 large coal power plants;4 or

   * 2 to 4 times more than the total estimated reductions in CO2 emissions from the first phase of the EU Emissions Trading System between 2005 and 2007.5

By providing people with real-time home energy information we can make a major down payment on tackling climate change while saving money and creating exciting new industries -- and jobs.

Signed:

   * Google Inc.

   * GE

   * The Climate Group

   * NRDC

   * Alliance to Save Energy

   * Center for American Progress

   * Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition

   * Digital Energy Solutions Campaign

   * Dow

   * Energy Future Coalition

   * Intel

   * Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

   * US Green Building Council

   * Whirlpool

1 See e.g., Sarah Darby, Univ. of Oxford, The Effectiveness of Feedback on Energy Consumption (Apr 2006)

2 Based on IEA data and Denmark and Copenhagen population statistics

3 Based on European Commission estimates at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/transport/co2/co2_home.htm

4 Based on EIA data

5 Ellerman, D. and Buchner, B. (2008). "Over- Allocation Or Abatement? A Preliminary Analysis of the EU ETS Based on the 2005–06 Emissions Data." Environmental and Resource Economics, 41, 2