Aug 30 2010
General Electric Company has come out with an energy saving plan to cut down the carbon footprint of the country, whilst aiding a normal American household to save around $850 a year on its yearly power consumption. A recent report from MarketWatch indicates that an average American home currently spends around $1,240 a year exclusively on energy usage and the proposed GE plan will help to bring down the usage by nearly 70% or more.
GE is planning to connect the rooftop solar systems, energy saving lighting systems and appliances to the Nucleus Home Energy Manager a newly introduced product that is designed to deliver a real-time energy usage value of a household to any designated PC or a smart phone appliance. The energy manager will allow any household to monitor their energy consumption in real- time to understand the wastage and to prune down their energy usage by nearly 30% and GE also suggests the usage of solar panels to further cut down the energy bills by 40%. The company is planning to install its new facility in a number of houses located in western United States such as California, Sacramento, Arizona, San Diego and Phoenix to test its efficiency.
The energy efficiency tests planned by GE received around $5 million as part funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The tests planned by GE are a division of DOE’s Building Industry Research Alliance which includes more than 80 companies from energy industry that are dedicated to constructing energy efficient homes all over the country by sharing 20 to 30 percent of the costs. The alliance includes companies located in San Diego, Sacramento and Phoenix.
Source: http://www.ge.com/