Google has signed a deal to connect its PowerMeter home energy software to monitoring devices from Current Costs in the UK.
Current Costs' energy monitors, designed to sit on kitchen tables or to hang on a wall, give people a view into their electricity consumption by displaying real-time usage and projections for monthly usage and costs.
In the UK, utility E.On is making a PowerMeter-compatible monitor from Current Costs for free as part of an energy efficiency programme, said Scott Coleman, partnership development manager at Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google which developed PowerMeter.
For more on this story, see Google PowerMeter comes to U.K. in monitor deal on CNET News.
