{"id":3900,"date":"2011-07-06T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2011-07-06T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:43:15","slug":"how-to-succeed-in-energy-management-where-google-microsoft-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/how-to-succeed-in-energy-management-where-google-microsoft-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Succeed in Energy Management Where Google, Microsoft Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on energy efficiency for 20 years and care deeply about the issue, but this raises the question: Is it possible to get large parts of the population to engage &#8212; and stay engaged &#8212; in energy efficiency?<\/p>\n<p>Witness, among other things<strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/news\/2011\/06\/28\/what-googles-pulling-plug-powermeter-means-market\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s recent retreat<\/a><\/strong> from the home energy management space, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2387984,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft&#8217;s pivot away<\/a> from consumers toward building management. If even an Early Adopter strategy consultant and energy geek <strong>like<\/strong> me, who thinks the fate of the planet hangs in the balance, still doesn&#8217;t use the industry&#8217;s energy management solutions, what are we to do?<\/p>\n<p>After an eye-opening three days at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eei.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Edison Electric Institute<\/a> (EEI)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eei.org\/meetings\/AnnualConvention\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">annual meeting<\/a> in mid-June, I&#8217;m convinced there are three possible answers:<\/p>\n<p>1. Make it fun and fulfilling<br \/>\n2. Make it really, really easy<br \/>\n3. Make it mandatory<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/how-to-succeed-energy-management-where-google-microsoft-failed\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete article at GreenBiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on energy efficiency for 20 years and care deeply about the issue, but this raises the question: Is it possible to get large parts of the population to engage &#8212; and stay engaged &#8212; in energy efficiency? Witness, among other things,\u00a0Google&#8217;s recent retreat from the home energy management space, and\u00a0Microsoft&#8217;s pivot away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/how-to-succeed-in-energy-management-where-google-microsoft-failed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Succeed in Energy Management Where Google, Microsoft Failed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3902,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}