Creating Energy Intelligence with Smart Meters

Our local energy infrastructure provider recently informed us that our home connect would be receiving a smart meter upgrade. As a sustainability consultant and someone in pursuit of my own sustainable lifestyle, I could not be more pleased with the new addition. Our home will now be equipped with a tool to provide greater insight into our personal consumption.

An important first step in implementing any sustainability concept, such as energy efficiency, involves access to information and an expanded awareness. Smart meter provide residential and commercial energy users with new insights into consumption patterns.

•    Insight into daily consumption patterns.
•    Visibility into peak usage (particularly important to commercial users).
•    Real time consumption and updated bill calculation.
•    Ability to measure specific equipment and appliance consumption.
•    Future smart homes and businesses remotely controlled through the internet.

A significant way to reduce your personal carbon footprint is through energy consumption at home. By collecting information and incorporating energy efficiency sustainability concepts into daily living, we as energy consumers can not only directly impact our monthly bill but reduce our personal emissions. The smart meter will provide our home with greater insight into energy consumption and offer opportunities to improve efficiencies.

As a sustainability consultant, we advise clients on ways to incorporate energy efficiency and source control into a more sustainable lifestyle. By leveraging new technologies, like smart meters, businesses and individuals will now have greater access to the information needed to make more sustainable consumption choices. Find out today what your local provider’s plans are for smart meters in your area.