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Control4’s Energy Monitor Could Be a Game Changer
“As a lead generation tool, it’s pretty compelling. We can use home automation as a follow-up.” --Control4's Paul Nagel
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Movable Walls for Energy Savings
We’ve written about the Lumenhaus, a project built by Virginia Tech students as part of the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C., but we just couldn’t resist pointing to it again. The experimental...
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Lutron Energy Savings Campaign Offers a Great Marketing Model
Some companies say they’re green and energy-efficient. Others dabble in it. But lighting and control giant Lutron is serious about promoting energy efficiency—and that can only mean good things for...
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Are Energy Efficiency and Earth Day a Bad Mix?
The concepts of energy conservation, energy savings and energy efficiency have made great ground in the last couple of years. Many people have come to accept saving energy as a good thing, largely...
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Automating Energy Savings, Intelligently
We hear it all the time. Heck, we say it all the time: Energy efficiency technologies need to be automated to deliver real savings and real benefits to most users. Because if it’s not automated and...
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Green Marketing is Dead; Long Live Energy Efficiency
The green gurus have been atwitter recently, since green marketing maven Joel Makower’s controversial blog post declaring that “Green Marketing is Over.” There are ways to overcome the green marketing...
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Don’t ‘Educate’; Make Energy Savings Visible
Are you interested in educating your potential green tech customers on why they should be green or energy efficient? Don’t, says green marketer Suzanne Shelton of the Shelton Group. Also don’t try to...
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Personalization is Key to Energy Savings
Personalization will be a key element in smart buildings and homes going forward. Combined with automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, it can allow us to personalize spaces for...
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Biz Opp: We’re ‘Too Busy Relaxing’ to Care About Energy Efficiency
Being "too busy relaxing" seems like an absurd statement. Though there's some oxymornic truth to it, especially in regards to people thinking about their energy use. Yet this also creates a business...
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Is Alarm.com the Bellwether of Home Energy Management?
If you want to know where energy management in the home is going, you may want to track Alarm.com and its automation features.
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