Empower Launches Home Energy Portal
Web-based energy portal Empower Software has announced the launch of an advanced home energy portal for electricity, gas and water. Empower specializes in consumer usability. That expertise is leveraged with existing communication information channels in order to anticipate consumers’ future energy consumption based on their usage today. Empower says it works with the utility’s data and visually presents it to the consumer “in an easy to understand and meaningful way through a client portal or desktop application.” The company also says its application “is the only energy conservation tool to offer communication messaging and up to date energy monitoring across all three utilities.”
Michael Silmont, Empower Software COO, says, “Customer’s need to understand what the smart grid can do for them. With our new energy portal, utilities can offer their consumers that expected dynamic information that educates and informs consumers of how their home responds while alleviating fears of higher bills and utility controls.”
Empower is merging energy efficiency programs, alerts, ratings, and messaging with real-time monitoring of power consumption to enable utility consumers to participate in managing their energy usage without having to spend money on additional hardware. Empower Software’s launch across electricity, gas, and water will help the three main utilities better engage and motivate their customers to change their in their energy consumption. Empower’s visual information and messaging about usage has proven to change consumer behavior, reducing peak consumption and carbon emissions. For more information, visit www.empowersoftware.ca
