Archive for 'home energy' Category

Raising Standards – Do we need a new rating system?

Energy labelling has change the way that consumers shop. From its first introduction in the early 1990s to its most recent manifestation (since the original draft in 1992, EU legislation has been updated 12 times), it has concentrated on one thing – Energy. Consumers have developed an understanding of the ways that energy equates to [...]

The eco-vacs are coming

Roger and I headed to IFA on Friday to share the latest result of our Ecovation process, Stem – our concept for reducing the impact vacuums have on the environment by 27% and reducing the energy used by 43%.  We had some really good meetings with a number of the big manufacturers, so it was a [...]

Google Health and PowerMeter are closing – 5 reasons this may not be a coincidence

Last friday Google announced that it is withdrawing two of its services – Google Health and Google PowerMeter. It’s no coincidence that these two have been announced at the same time….

Shouldn’t eco-credentials be taken for granted?

This week Rachel, Ruth and I continued to spread the good word according to Kevin (pictured above!) – the Cambridge Consultants process  for developing breakthrough technologies and innovations that significantly reduce the impact products have on the environment.  The latest workshop was part of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainable Leadership’s Master of Studies course.  CPSL [...]

UMI and Smart Meters at Metering and Billing 2010

Last week in Vienna saw the major European conference on Smart Metering. Our colleague Alistair Morfey presented UMI – Universal Metering Interface on Wednesday 22nd September in the afternoon session on Standardisation and Interoperability. You may be thinking why is metering so important to consumers – meters are those ugly grey boxes which are buried [...]