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German utility partners with Google PowerMeter - willkommen!
6/30/09
Earlier today we announced on the
Google Germany Blog
that
Yello Strom
is our first Google PowerMeter partner in Europe. With over 1.4 million customers, Yello is among Germany's ten largest electricity companies and the very first company to offer commercial smart meters nationwide in Germany.
When Yello Executive Director Martin Vesper gave us a demo of the Sparzähler meter a few months ago, it felt like fate -- Yello's solution for making energy information easy-to-access and easy-to-act-upon aligns perfectly with our vision for
Google PowerMeter
. The Sparzähler meter's broadband connectivity makes it possible for Google PowerMeter users to see 15 minute interval data nearly in real time. (Its design is also pretty sleek, we think.)
Google PowerMeter now has
nine utility partners
around the world, large and small -- and each partner shares our goal of giving customers easy access to their own home energy usage information.
We hear from utilities around the world that are interested in enabling their customers to use Google PowerMeter. At the moment, we're focused on working with those utilities that can collect a minimum of hourly data (that's 24 reads a day) and deliver it to Google within one day. If you work for a utility with these kind of capabilities and are interested in getting your customers Google PowerMeter, please
let us know
!
Posted by Tom Sly, New Business Development
Happy World Environment Day
6/5/09
Today is
World Environment Day
and I wanted to point your attention to a major initiative that just launched and is supported by Google: The Prince of Wales'
Prince's Rainforest Project
, dedicated to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Check out this
video
featuring supporters from around the world, including Google's very own CEO,
Eric Schmidt
- and some adorable frogs. Prince Charles
spoke
about the destruction of the rainforest and other challenges of the 21st century at our recent European Zeitgeist. As he has said, "If we lose the battle against tropical deforestation, we lose the battle against climate change."
Posted by Amit Sood, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
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