Create a national "Performance Dashboard" on energy efficiency, showing energy performance over time of homes, companies, cities, counties, federal government etc. Use the site to highlight groups that are being successful, as well as the techniques they are using (Technology and Behavior) to reduce energy usage. Use as a foundation for a national energy award (Sort of like Baldridge is for Quality)
Establish the system with open standards that let innovative technology companies, researchers, etc link their systems into a national data feed for open collaboration.
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I like this idea because it can be implemented NOW without depending on large scale roll-out of Smart Meters or AMI systems.
I like the idea of coupling market intelligence with energy efficiency - and getting feedback from communities
Good idea. I just wish I could sit and have a beer with the guy who thought of it.
Sounds like a good way to highlight and pressure groups that are wasting energy
So you want the government to be in our business right down to how much energy we use? No THANKS, they need to stay out of our lives!!!
Actually, no I don't want the government monitoring our energy usage. If the government is going to spend billions to attempt to reduce energy usage and implement laws to reduce carbon, I want some form of feedback system that provides factual data about what measures work and what measures do not work. The notion of this proposal is voluntary participation by groups that believe they are moving in the right direction, with some form of independent assessment to assure those that have elected to participate are measures on a level field.
My guess is this data would be done in aggregate - i.e. this town implemented wind, here is the resulting increase/decrease in CO2. It would defeat the purpose of the system to impose this on people becasue it would lead to compromises in the data as people seek to protect their rightful privacy.
Blairsmomma, does that address your concern?