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ecofactor.com - 10/28/2009
EcoFactor - a personalized solution for managing residential energy use.
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Solutions For utilities, energy retailers and home services providers seeking to provide a cost-effective energy efficiency program to their customer base, EcoFactor provides long-term baseline load reductions that do not depend on consumer behavior, and that are fully documented for each ...

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Cleantech Open winners get it done quick and cheap
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... tremendous amounts of heat that could be used to produce electricity,” said Alphabet chief executive Matthew Scullin. Alphabet intends to disrupt the market not by making super-efficient thermoelectric materials but super-cheap devices that will lower the cost of generating electricity from waste heat. Scullin said the startup needs $2 million to $3 million to commercialize the technology. The winner of the smart power category was EcoFactor, which is developing residential energy management systems based on a two-way ...

EcoFactor: Finally A Smart Way to Control Thermostats
Earth2Tech — ... The software that 3-year-old startup EcoFactor has developed to intelligently manage connected thermostats is one of those game-changing technologies that makes you think: Wait, the industry doesn’t already do it that way? It’s just so obvious. EcoFactor, which is officially launching and announcing its first customer (Texas utility Oncor) this morning, has developed a service based on its smart algorithms that can continuously manage a home’s connected thermostat throughout the day, tweaking the settings ever so slightly to shave off energy consumption, but ...

From Smart Meters to Smart Thermostats
Green Inc. — ... in homes, more companies are offering services that tap the devices’ ability to give consumers information about their electricity use. But EcoFactor , a startup in the Silicon Valley suburb of Redwood City, aims to take things even further by gathering data about the weather, as well as consumers’ individual climate-control habits, to adjust a home’s air-conditioning and heating systems. Call it a smart thermostat. Besides learning when homeowners tend to turn on their heat or air-conditioning, EcoFactor also monitors weather down to the zip code level. Every 60 seconds, ...

Earth2Tech Week in Review
Earth2Tech — ... The software that 3-year-old startup EcoFactor has developed to intelligently manage connected thermostats is one of those game-changing technologies that makes you think: Wait, the industry doesn’t already do it that way? ...

Notes from the Cleantech Open Awards Gala
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit — ... to last year’s winners, the promise of what was on display was truly astounding, and gives me quite a bit of hope that we have a strong chance of beating some of the enormous challenges that are facing our environment. EcoFactor , the competition’s overall winner, humorously presented an amazingly simple concept: a web-enabled thermostat that automatically and continuously adjusts the temperature of your home based on local environmental conditions. According to the company, over 50% of households with programmable thermostats do not program them. This technology avoids that ...

Ecofactor Smart Thermostat System Wins Cleantech Open
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit — ... , one of the leading environmental technology competitions in the country. Ecofactor makes integrated systems that calibrate a residential or commercial thermostat for maximum energy efficiency without having any noticeable effect on comfort. The system uses information from 24,000 data points, such as local weather, typical customer behavior and the design characteristics of a home or business to control the thermostat, which is connected to the Internet via a broadband connection. As National Prize winner, Ecofactor took home $250,000, including $100,000 in seed capital. This ...

PG&E’s Bakersfield Problem: Getting the Customer on Board
Greentech Media: All Content — ... between installing smart meters which save utilities money by allowing them to stop hiring people to walk from house to house to read meters and bringing the next-generation home energy management they've promised, he said. "There's a real risk here that the lag between the smart meter going in... and the in-home network that provides value to the consumer is so great that the consumer starts to feel disenfranchised," he said. Scott Hublou, senior vice president of products for EcoFactor a ...

EcoFactor and the Truly Smart Grid
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit — ... . ecofactor smart energy management diagram What it does behind the scenes is fairly complex, but for the user, easy and out of the way: It keeps your home at an optimum temperature, via an externally managed system. And it doesn’t require you to buy expensive or not yet available equipment. You can, with a little diligence, use either the energy saver setting on your thermostat, or program your thermostat. But as EcoFactor puts it, “The energy management solutions offered today – such as the “Energy Saver” mode on many thermostats – are of the “one size fits all” breed. These ...